Re: [PATCH 2/3] [v2] staging: rtl8723bs: convert strncpy to strscpy

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 09:48:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> gcc-9 complains about a possibly unterminated string in the strncpy() destination:
> 
> In function 'rtw_cfg80211_add_monitor_if',
>     inlined from 'cfg80211_rtw_add_virtual_intf' at drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c:2209:9:
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c:2146:2: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 16 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
>  2146 |  strncpy(mon_ndev->name, name, IFNAMSIZ);
>       |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> This one is a false-positive because of the explicit termination in the following
> line, and recent versions of clang and gcc no longer warn about this.
> 
> Interestingly, the other strncpy() in this file is missing a termination but
> does not produce a warning, possibly because of the type confusion and the
> cast between u8 and char.
> 
> Change both strncpy() instances to strscpy(), which avoids the warning as well
> as the possibly missing termination. No additional padding is needed here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
>   use the two-argument version of strscpy(), which is simpler for the constant
>   size destination. Add the third instance in this driver as well.

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

regards,
dan carpenter