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habanalabs/gaudi2: refactor deprecated strncpy

Message ID 20230824-strncpy-drivers-accel-habanalabs-gaudi2-gaudi2-c-v1-1-1a37b65576b4@google.com (mailing list archive)
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Series habanalabs/gaudi2: refactor deprecated strncpy | expand

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Justin Stitt Aug. 24, 2023, 8:45 p.m. UTC
`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].

A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
_not_ the case for `strncpy`!

Link: 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 <justinstitt@google.com>
---
Note: build-tested only.
---
 drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi2/gaudi2.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


---
base-commit: f9604036a3fb6149badf346994b46b03f9292db7
change-id: 20230824-strncpy-drivers-accel-habanalabs-gaudi2-gaudi2-c-0b3f717bee12

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>

Comments

Stanislaw Gruszka Aug. 25, 2023, 9:20 a.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 08:45:08PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
> 
> A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
> guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
> _not_ the case for `strncpy`!
> 
> Link: 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 <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stanislaw.gruszka@linux.intel.com>
Justin Stitt Aug. 25, 2023, 10:12 p.m. UTC | #2
This patch as well as two other related patches were combined into a
single patch [1]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 1:45 PM Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> wrote:
>
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
> guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
> _not_ the case for `strncpy`!
>
> Link: 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 <justinstitt@google.com>
> ---
> Note: build-tested only.
> ---
>  drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi2/gaudi2.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi2/gaudi2.c b/drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi2/gaudi2.c
> index 20c4583f12b0..755b2d92357d 100644
> --- a/drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi2/gaudi2.c
> +++ b/drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi2/gaudi2.c
> @@ -2431,7 +2431,7 @@ static int gaudi2_set_fixed_properties(struct hl_device *hdev)
>         prop->pcie_dbi_base_address = CFG_BASE + mmPCIE_DBI_BASE;
>         prop->pcie_aux_dbi_reg_addr = CFG_BASE + mmPCIE_AUX_DBI;
>
> -       strncpy(prop->cpucp_info.card_name, GAUDI2_DEFAULT_CARD_NAME, CARD_NAME_MAX_LEN);
> +       strscpy(prop->cpucp_info.card_name, GAUDI2_DEFAULT_CARD_NAME, CARD_NAME_MAX_LEN);
>
>         prop->mme_master_slave_mode = 1;
>
> @@ -2884,7 +2884,7 @@ static int gaudi2_cpucp_info_get(struct hl_device *hdev)
>         }
>
>         if (!strlen(prop->cpucp_info.card_name))
> -               strncpy(prop->cpucp_info.card_name, GAUDI2_DEFAULT_CARD_NAME, CARD_NAME_MAX_LEN);
> +               strscpy(prop->cpucp_info.card_name, GAUDI2_DEFAULT_CARD_NAME, CARD_NAME_MAX_LEN);
>
>         /* Overwrite binning masks with the actual binning values from F/W */
>         hdev->dram_binning = prop->cpucp_info.dram_binning_mask;
>
> ---
> base-commit: f9604036a3fb6149badf346994b46b03f9292db7
> change-id: 20230824-strncpy-drivers-accel-habanalabs-gaudi2-gaudi2-c-0b3f717bee12
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
>

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230825-strncpy-habanalabs-combined-v1-1-daa05a89b7e3@google.com
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diff --git a/drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi2/gaudi2.c b/drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi2/gaudi2.c
index 20c4583f12b0..755b2d92357d 100644
--- a/drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi2/gaudi2.c
+++ b/drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi2/gaudi2.c
@@ -2431,7 +2431,7 @@  static int gaudi2_set_fixed_properties(struct hl_device *hdev)
 	prop->pcie_dbi_base_address = CFG_BASE + mmPCIE_DBI_BASE;
 	prop->pcie_aux_dbi_reg_addr = CFG_BASE + mmPCIE_AUX_DBI;
 
-	strncpy(prop->cpucp_info.card_name, GAUDI2_DEFAULT_CARD_NAME, CARD_NAME_MAX_LEN);
+	strscpy(prop->cpucp_info.card_name, GAUDI2_DEFAULT_CARD_NAME, CARD_NAME_MAX_LEN);
 
 	prop->mme_master_slave_mode = 1;
 
@@ -2884,7 +2884,7 @@  static int gaudi2_cpucp_info_get(struct hl_device *hdev)
 	}
 
 	if (!strlen(prop->cpucp_info.card_name))
-		strncpy(prop->cpucp_info.card_name, GAUDI2_DEFAULT_CARD_NAME, CARD_NAME_MAX_LEN);
+		strscpy(prop->cpucp_info.card_name, GAUDI2_DEFAULT_CARD_NAME, CARD_NAME_MAX_LEN);
 
 	/* Overwrite binning masks with the actual binning values from F/W */
 	hdev->dram_binning = prop->cpucp_info.dram_binning_mask;