Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: mv_u3d: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Mar 19 2024 - 22:49:53 EST
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 11:31:53PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
> [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
> interfaces.
>
> Let's opt for the new 2-argument version of strscpy() which guarantees
> NUL-termination on the destination buffer and simplifies snytax. The
> NUL-padding behavior that strncpy() provides is not required as u3d->eps
> is already zero-allocated:
> | u3d->eps = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> 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>
Thanks!
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Kees Cook