[PATCH] power: supply: bq2515x: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

From: Justin Stitt
Date: Fri Oct 20 2023 - 14:59:45 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 bq2515x->model_name to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with
sysfs_emit and format strings:

val->strval is assigned to bq2515x->model_name in
bq2515x_mains_get_property():
| val->strval = bq2515x->model_name;

... then in power_supply_sysfs.c we use value.strval with a format string:
| ret = sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", value.strval);

we assigned value.strval via:
| ret = power_supply_get_property(psy, psp, &value);
... which invokes psy->desc->get_property():
| return psy->desc->get_property(psy, psp, val);

with bq2515x_mains_get_property():
| static const struct power_supply_desc bq2515x_mains_desc = {
...
| .get_property = bq2515x_mains_get_property,

Moreover, no NUL-padding is required as bq2515x is zero-allocated in
bq2515x_charger.c:
| bq2515x = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*bq2515x), 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)) as this more closely ties the destination buffer and the
length.

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>
Similar-to: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231020-strncpy-drivers-power-supply-bq24190_charger-c-v1-1-e896223cb795@xxxxxxxxxx/
---
Note: build-tested only.

Found with: $ rg "strncpy\("
---
drivers/power/supply/bq2515x_charger.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/bq2515x_charger.c b/drivers/power/supply/bq2515x_charger.c
index 1dbacc9b015d..b4ea1707304a 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/bq2515x_charger.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/bq2515x_charger.c
@@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ static int bq2515x_probe(struct i2c_client *client)

bq2515x->dev = dev;

- strncpy(bq2515x->model_name, id->name, I2C_NAME_SIZE);
+ strscpy(bq2515x->model_name, id->name, sizeof(bq2515x->model_name));

bq2515x->device_id = id->driver_data;


---
base-commit: bb55d7f7f7445abcc8db50e6a65d4315e79f75c7
change-id: 20231020-strncpy-drivers-power-supply-bq2515x_charger-c-cbf1811334f2

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