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From: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
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, Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: fsl: qe: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2023 22:35:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADmuW3UAHODqC5YAmjK1sOuo3C56noOa6hsHA+2Es2R9MT36_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202305231020.37C95FD@keescook>

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://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> > [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>

Friendly ping on this.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-10  2:36 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 [this message]
2023-07-10 16:46     ` Leo Li
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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