[PATCH] nfp: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

From: Justin Stitt
Date: Wed Oct 11 2023 - 17:48:45 EST


strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

We expect res->name to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with format
strings:
| dev_err(cpp->dev.parent, "Dangling area: %d:%d:%d:0x%0llx-0x%0llx%s%s\n",
| NFP_CPP_ID_TARGET_of(res->cpp_id),
| NFP_CPP_ID_ACTION_of(res->cpp_id),
| NFP_CPP_ID_TOKEN_of(res->cpp_id),
| res->start, res->end,
| res->name ? " " : "",
| res->name ? res->name : "");
... and with strcmp()
| if (!strcmp(res->name, NFP_RESOURCE_TBL_NAME)) {

Moreover, NUL-padding is not required as `res` is already
zero-allocated:
| res = kzalloc(sizeof(*res), GFP_KERNEL);

Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to
the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer
without unnecessarily NUL-padding.

Let's also opt to use the more idiomatic strscpy() usage of (dest, src,
sizeof(dest)) rather than (dest, src, SOME_LEN).

Typically the pattern of 1) allocate memory for string, 2) copy string
into freshly-allocated memory is a candidate for kmemdup_nul() but in
this case we are allocating the entirety of the `res` struct and that
should stay as is. As mentioned above, simple 1:1 replacement of strncpy
-> strscpy :)

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Note: build-tested only.

Found with: $ rg "strncpy\("
---
drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c
index ce7492a6a98f..279ea0b56955 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ nfp_resource_acquire(struct nfp_cpp *cpp, const char *name)
if (!res)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

- strncpy(res->name, name, NFP_RESOURCE_ENTRY_NAME_SZ);
+ strscpy(res->name, name, sizeof(res->name));

dev_mutex = nfp_cpp_mutex_alloc(cpp, NFP_RESOURCE_TBL_TARGET,
NFP_RESOURCE_TBL_BASE,

---
base-commit: cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2
change-id: 20231011-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-netronome-nfp-nfpcore-nfp_resource-c-1812b8357fcd

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>