Re: [PATCH] mm/kasan: switch from strlcpy to strscpy

[Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 8:45 AM Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 6:10 AM Zhiyuan Dai <daizhiyuan@phytium.com.cn> wrote:
> >
> > strlcpy is marked as deprecated in Documentation/process/deprecated.rst,
> > and there is no functional difference when the caller expects truncation
> > (when not checking the return value). strscpy is relatively better as it
> > also avoids scanning the whole source string.
>
> Looks like a good thing to do.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Zhiyuan Dai <daizhiyuan@phytium.com.cn>
> Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
>
> > ---
> >  mm/kasan/report_generic.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/kasan/report_generic.c b/mm/kasan/report_generic.c
> > index 8a9c889..fc7f7ad 100644
> > --- a/mm/kasan/report_generic.c
> > +++ b/mm/kasan/report_generic.c
> > @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ static bool __must_check tokenize_frame_descr(const char **frame_descr,
> >                 }
> >
> >                 /* Copy token (+ 1 byte for '\0'). */
> > -               strlcpy(token, *frame_descr, tok_len + 1);
> > +               strscpy(token, *frame_descr, tok_len + 1);
> >         }
> >
> >         /* Advance frame_descr past separator. */
> > --
> > 1.8.3.1
> >

Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>

Thanks!