Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: xen: ensure nul-terminated device name

From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko
Date: Tue May 29 2018 - 01:49:11 EST


On 05/28/2018 06:59 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
gcc-8 warns that pcm_instance->name is not necessarily terminated correctly
if the input is more than 80 characters long or lacks a termination byte
itself:

In function 'strncpy',
inlined from 'cfg_device' at sound/xen/xen_snd_front_cfg.c:399:3,
inlined from 'xen_snd_front_cfg_card' at sound/xen/xen_snd_front_cfg.c:509:9:
include/linux/string.h:254:9: error: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 80 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
return __builtin_strncpy(p, q, size);

Using strlcpy() instead of strncpy() makes this a bit safer.

Fixes: fd3b36045c2c ("ALSA: xen-front: Read sound driver configuration from Xen store")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
sound/xen/xen_snd_front_cfg.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/xen/xen_snd_front_cfg.c b/sound/xen/xen_snd_front_cfg.c
index 38c7e1eefbb9..684b5f1d51ac 100644
--- a/sound/xen/xen_snd_front_cfg.c
+++ b/sound/xen/xen_snd_front_cfg.c
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ static int cfg_device(struct xen_snd_front_info *front_info,
str = xenbus_read(XBT_NIL, device_path, XENSND_FIELD_DEVICE_NAME, NULL);
if (!IS_ERR(str)) {
- strncpy(pcm_instance->name, str, sizeof(pcm_instance->name));
+ strlcpy(pcm_instance->name, str, sizeof(pcm_instance->name));
kfree(str);
}
Thank you for your patch,
Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@xxxxxxxx>