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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Subject: strscpy() vs strlcpy() and WARN_ONCE()
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:37:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <506c194b-1dcf-b616-4b33-5fed3394a3a0@selasky.org> (raw)

> commit c0decac19da3906d9b66291e57b7759489e1170f
> Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
> Date:   Mon Sep 10 08:19:14 2018 -0400
> 
>     media: use strscpy() instead of strlcpy()
>     
>     The implementation of strscpy() is more robust and safer.
>     
>     That's now the recommended way to copy NUL terminated strings.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
>     Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>     Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

Hi Mauro,

The following piece of the commit above I believe is wrong:

>         if (descr)
> -               WARN_ON(strlcpy(fmt->description, descr, sz) >= sz);
> +               WARN_ON(strscpy(fmt->description, descr, sz) >= sz);
>         fmt->flags = flags;

It should be:
		WARN_ON(strscpy(fmt->description, descr, sz) < 0);

I don't have time to make a full patch for this so please handle this 
issue for me. Thank you!

--HPS

             reply	other threads:[~2018-12-13 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-13 12:37 Hans Petter Selasky [this message]
2019-01-25 13:01 ` [PATCH] strscpy() returns a negative value on failure unlike strlcpy() Hans Petter Selasky

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