Re: [PATCH net] xfrm: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad

[Paolo Abeni]

On 11/13/24 10:20, Daniel Yang wrote:
> The function strncpy is deprecated since it does not guarantee the
> destination buffer is NULL terminated. Recommended replacement is
> strscpy. The padded version was used to remain consistent with the other
> strscpy_pad usage in the modified function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Yang <danielyangkang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
> index e3b8ce898..085f68e35 100644
> --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
> +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
> @@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ static int copy_to_user_auth(struct xfrm_algo_auth *auth, struct sk_buff *skb)
>  	if (!nla)
>  		return -EMSGSIZE;
>  	algo = nla_data(nla);
> -	strncpy(algo->alg_name, auth->alg_name, sizeof(algo->alg_name));
> +	strscpy_pad(algo->alg_name, auth->alg_name, sizeof(algo->alg_name));
>  
>  	if (redact_secret && auth->alg_key_len)
>  		memset(algo->alg_key, 0, (auth->alg_key_len + 7) / 8);

@Steffen, @Herbert: I think this should go via your tree despite the
prefix tag.

Please LMK otherwise!

Thanks,

Paolo