Re: [PATCH 3/3] [v2] staging: greybus: change strncpy() to strscpy_pad()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue Apr 09 2024 - 03:04:31 EST


On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 09:48:11PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> gcc-10 warns about a strncpy() that does not enforce zero-termination:
>
> In file included from include/linux/string.h:369,
> from drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c:9:
> In function 'strncpy',
> inlined from 'fw_mgmt_backend_fw_update_operation' at drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c:306:2:
> include/linux/fortify-string.h:108:30: error: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 10 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
> 108 | #define __underlying_strncpy __builtin_strncpy
> | ^
> include/linux/fortify-string.h:187:9: note: in expansion of macro '__underlying_strncpy'
> 187 | return __underlying_strncpy(p, q, size);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> For some reason, I cannot reproduce this with gcc-9 or gcc-11, and I only
> get a warning for one of the four related strncpy()s, so I'm not
> sure what's going on.
>
> Change all four to strscpy_pad(), which is the safest replacement here,
> as it avoids ending up with uninitialized stack data in the tag name.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2
> - use strscpy_pad()
> - use two-argument form
> - change all four instances, not just the one that produced the warning

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

regards,
dan carpenter