[PATCH] docs: networking: Replace strncpy() with strscpy()

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Jun 02 2021 - 16:29:37 EST


Replace example code's use of strncpy() with strscpy() functions. Using
strncpy() is considered deprecated:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/input/joydev/joystick-api.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/input/joydev/joystick-api.rst b/Documentation/input/joydev/joystick-api.rst
index af5934c10c1c..5db6dc6fe1c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/joydev/joystick-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/input/joydev/joystick-api.rst
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ possible overrun should the name be too long::

char name[128];
if (ioctl(fd, JSIOCGNAME(sizeof(name)), name) < 0)
- strncpy(name, "Unknown", sizeof(name));
+ strscpy(name, "Unknown", sizeof(name));
printf("Name: %s\n", name);


diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst
index 500ef60b1b82..c5da1a5d93de 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ As capture, each frame contains two parts::
struct ifreq s_ifr;
...

- strncpy (s_ifr.ifr_name, "eth0", sizeof(s_ifr.ifr_name));
+ strscpy_pad (s_ifr.ifr_name, "eth0", sizeof(s_ifr.ifr_name));

/* get interface index of eth0 */
ioctl(this->socket, SIOCGIFINDEX, &s_ifr);
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst b/Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst
index a59d1dd6fdcc..4d7087f727be 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Note that the character pointer becomes overwritten with the real device name
*/
ifr.ifr_flags = IFF_TUN;
if( *dev )
- strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, dev, IFNAMSIZ);
+ strscpy_pad(ifr.ifr_name, dev, IFNAMSIZ);

if( (err = ioctl(fd, TUNSETIFF, (void *) &ifr)) < 0 ){
close(fd);
--
2.25.1