On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 09:43:02PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> 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 expect new_bus->id to be NUL-terminated but not NUL-padded based on
> its prior assignment through snprintf:
> | snprintf(new_bus->id, MII_BUS_ID_SIZE, "gpio-%x", bus_id);
>
> Due to this, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact
> that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without
> unnecessarily NUL-padding.
>
> 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-hardening@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
Andrew
