[PATCH net-next] net: ipconfig: Replace strncpy with strscpy_pad in ic_proto_name
From: Thorsten Blum
Date: Wed Nov 26 2025 - 06:14:28 EST
strncpy() is deprecated [1] for NUL-terminated destination buffers since
it does not guarantee NUL termination. Replace it with strscpy_pad() to
ensure NUL termination of the destination buffer while retaining the
NUL-padding behavior of strncpy().
Even though the identifier buffer has 252 usable bytes, strncpy()
intentionally copied only 251 bytes into the zero-initialized buffer,
implicitly relying on the last byte to act as the terminator. Switching
to strscpy_pad() removes the need for this trick and avoids using magic
numbers.
The source string is also NUL-terminated and satisfies the
__must_be_cstr() requirement of strscpy_pad().
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index 22a7889876c1..27cc6f8070b7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -1690,7 +1690,8 @@ static int __init ic_proto_name(char *name)
*v = 0;
if (kstrtou8(client_id, 0, dhcp_client_identifier))
pr_debug("DHCP: Invalid client identifier type\n");
- strncpy(dhcp_client_identifier + 1, v + 1, 251);
+ strscpy_pad(dhcp_client_identifier + 1, v + 1,
+ sizeof(dhcp_client_identifier) - 1);
*v = ',';
}
return 1;
--
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
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