Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: cfg80211: strlcpy withreturn

[Kalle Valo]

Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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().
>
> Direct replacement is safe here since WIPHY_ASSIGN is only used by
> TRACE macros and the return values are ignored.
>
> [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>

The title should be:

wifi: cfg80211: replace strlcpy() with strlscpy()

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