Re: [PATCH] m68k: mm: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()

From: Greg Ungerer
Date: Tue Feb 18 2025 - 17:45:59 EST


Hi Thorsten,

On 19/2/25 00:13, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 15:11, Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
strncpy() is deprecated for NUL-terminated destination buffers. Use
strscpy() instead and remove the manual NUL-termination.

Compile-tested only.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

--- a/arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c
+++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c
@@ -243,8 +243,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
setup_initial_init_mm((void *)PAGE_OFFSET, _etext, _edata, _end);

#if defined(CONFIG_BOOTPARAM)
- strncpy(m68k_command_line, CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_STRING, CL_SIZE);
- m68k_command_line[CL_SIZE - 1] = 0;
+ strscpy(m68k_command_line, CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_STRING, CL_SIZE);
#endif /* CONFIG_BOOTPARAM */
process_uboot_commandline(&m68k_command_line[0], CL_SIZE);
*cmdline_p = m68k_command_line;

This seems to be used mostly by Coldfire, so I'll let Greg handle it.

Looks good. Pushed into the m68knommu git tree, for-next branch, with
JM's tested-by and Geert's reviewed-by added.

Thanks
Greg