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From: Leo Li <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
To: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@nxp.com>,
	"linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] soc: fsl: qe: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:46:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR04MB62891F29BB182FA2B24A37098F30A@AM0PR04MB6289.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADmuW3UAHODqC5YAmjK1sOuo3C56noOa6hsHA+2Es2R9MT36_g@mail.gmail.com>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2023 9:36 PM
> To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@nxp.com>; linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org;
> linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Leo Li
> <leoyang.li@nxp.com>; linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: fsl: qe: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with
> strscpy
> 
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 1:20 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 02:14:25AM +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> > > strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> > > This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> > > This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read overflows if a
> > > source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> > > In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> > > strlcpy() here with strscpy().
> > > No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww
> > >
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> > >
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> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> >
> 
> Friendly ping on this.

Sorry for the late response.  But I found some old discussions with the conclusion to be not converting old users.  Has this been changed later on?
https://lwn.net/Articles/659214/

Regards,
Leo

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-10 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-23  2:14 [PATCH] soc: fsl: qe: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy Azeem Shaikh
2023-05-23 17:20 ` Kees Cook
2023-07-10  2:35   ` Azeem Shaikh
2023-07-10 16:46     ` Leo Li [this message]
2023-07-11 23:55       ` Azeem Shaikh
2023-07-13  0:06       ` Kees Cook
2023-07-26 21:53 ` Kees Cook
2023-05-30 16:00 Azeem Shaikh
2023-05-30 16:08 ` Azeem Shaikh

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