[PATCH] vfs: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

From: Azeem Shaikh
Date: Wed May 10 2023 - 18:12:30 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/char_dev.c | 2 +-
fs/super.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 13deb45f1ec6..950b6919fb87 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
cd->major = major;
cd->baseminor = baseminor;
cd->minorct = minorct;
- strlcpy(cd->name, name, sizeof(cd->name));
+ strscpy(cd->name, name, sizeof(cd->name));

if (!prev) {
cd->next = curr;
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 34afe411cf2b..8d8d68799b34 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ struct super_block *sget_fc(struct fs_context *fc,
fc->s_fs_info = NULL;
s->s_type = fc->fs_type;
s->s_iflags |= fc->s_iflags;
- strlcpy(s->s_id, s->s_type->name, sizeof(s->s_id));
+ strscpy(s->s_id, s->s_type->name, sizeof(s->s_id));
list_add_tail(&s->s_list, &super_blocks);
hlist_add_head(&s->s_instances, &s->s_type->fs_supers);
spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ struct super_block *sget(struct file_system_type *type,
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
s->s_type = type;
- strlcpy(s->s_id, type->name, sizeof(s->s_id));
+ strscpy(s->s_id, type->name, sizeof(s->s_id));
list_add_tail(&s->s_list, &super_blocks);
hlist_add_head(&s->s_instances, &type->fs_supers);
spin_unlock(&sb_lock);