`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.
We can see that netdev->name is expected to be NUL-terminated based on
it's usage with format strings:
| pr_info("%s NIC Link is Down\n",
| netdev->name);
A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without
unnecessarily NUL-padding.
This is in line with other uses of strscpy on netdev->name:
$ rg "strscpy\(netdev\->name.*pci.*"
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
7455: strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name));
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
10839: strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name));
Link:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
[1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-harden...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com>
---
Note: build-tested only.
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
index da6e303ad99b..1d1e93686af2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ static int e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct
pci_device_id *ent)
netdev->watchdog_timeo = 5 * HZ;
netif_napi_add(netdev, &adapter->napi, e1000_clean);
- strncpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name) - 1);
+ strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name));
adapter->bd_number = cards_found;
---
base-commit: cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2
change-id:
20231010-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-intel-e1000-e1000_main-c-a45ddd89e0d7
Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com>
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