This pattern of strncpy with some pointer arithmetic setting fixed-sized intervals with string literal data is a bit weird so let's use ethtool_puts() as this has more obvious behavior and is less-error prone.
Nicely, we also get to drop a usage of the now deprecated strncpy() [1]. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 Cc: [email protected] Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Alexander Lobakin <[email protected]> --- Changes in v3: - use ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-dsa-lan9303-core-c-v2-1-feb452a53...@google.com Changes in v2: - use ethtool_sprintf (thanks Alexander) - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-dsa-lan9303-core-c-v1-1-5a66c5381...@google.com --- drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c b/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c index fcb20eac332a..04d3af0eb28e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c @@ -1007,14 +1007,14 @@ static const struct lan9303_mib_desc lan9303_mib[] = { static void lan9303_get_strings(struct dsa_switch *ds, int port, u32 stringset, uint8_t *data) { + u8 *buf = data; unsigned int u; if (stringset != ETH_SS_STATS) return; for (u = 0; u < ARRAY_SIZE(lan9303_mib); u++) { - strncpy(data + u * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, lan9303_mib[u].name, - ETH_GSTRING_LEN); + ethtool_puts(&buf, lan9303_mib[u].name); } } --- base-commit: c85af715cac0a951eea97393378e84bb49384734 change-id: 20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-dsa-lan9303-core-c-6386858e5c22 Best regards, -- Justin Stitt <[email protected]>
