From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> To: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Cc: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Subject: [PATCH] e100: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 23:41:01 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20231009-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-intel-e100-c-v1-1-ca0ff96868a3@google.com> (raw) `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> --- Note: build-tested only. --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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); --- base-commit: cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2 change-id: 20231009-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-intel-e100-c-4547179d9f2c Best regards, -- Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
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From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> To: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e100: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 23:41:01 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20231009-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-intel-e100-c-v1-1-ca0ff96868a3@google.com> (raw) `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> --- Note: build-tested only. --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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); --- base-commit: cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2 change-id: 20231009-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-intel-e100-c-4547179d9f2c Best regards, -- Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> _______________________________________________ Intel-wired-lan mailing list Intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-wired-lan
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