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[net-next,3/9] e100: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

Message ID 20231017190411.2199743-4-jacob.e.keller@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 7677f635bf800dc0dd684713c4578ad81f7ad0c3
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2023-10-17 | expand

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netdev/header_inline success No static functions without inline keyword in header files
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Commit Message

Jacob Keller Oct. 17, 2023, 7:04 p.m. UTC 
From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>

`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

The "...-1" pattern makes it evident that netdev->name is expected to be
NUL-terminated.

Meanwhile, it seems NUL-padding is not required due to alloc_etherdev
zero-allocating the buffer.

Considering the above, 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-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
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 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
index d3fdc290937f..01f0f12035ca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
@@ -2841,7 +2841,7 @@  static int e100_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
 	netdev->netdev_ops = &e100_netdev_ops;
 	netdev->ethtool_ops = &e100_ethtool_ops;
 	netdev->watchdog_timeo = E100_WATCHDOG_PERIOD;
-	strncpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name) - 1);
+	strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name));
 
 	nic = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	netif_napi_add_weight(netdev, &nic->napi, e100_poll, E100_NAPI_WEIGHT);