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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>,
	Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
	Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi017@gmail.com>,
	Sharvari Harisangam <sharvari.harisangam@nxp.com>,
	Xinming Hu <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
	Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: mwifiex: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:04:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202307271104.9502C1B932@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+ASDXPak0M4zSwiTFpkRxw_WOmBmKJUTi9i5wCOY89fiP1vng@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 10:30:29AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 10:04 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 07:02:31PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next.git/commit/?id=caf9ead2c7d06fd7aa4cb48bd569ad61db9a0b4a
> >
> > For the patch you linked to -- it's okay to have lost the overflow
> > detection and warning?
> 
> It's a fixed constant string being copied into a larger fixed array.
> It really doesn't matter functionality-wise. At best, the error check
> would be useful for human readers or automated tools. So I didn't
> bother complaining one way or another, as it took enough tries for the
> submitter to get things right in the first place.

Gotcha. Thanks!

-- 
Kees Cook

      reply	other threads:[~2023-07-27 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-10  3:06 [PATCH] wifi: mwifiex: Replace strlcpy with strscpy Azeem Shaikh
2023-07-12 23:55 ` Kees Cook
2023-07-27 15:52 ` Kees Cook
2023-07-27 16:02   ` Kalle Valo
2023-07-27 17:04     ` Kees Cook
2023-07-27 17:30       ` Brian Norris
2023-07-27 18:04         ` Kees Cook [this message]

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