Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: cfg80211: replace strlcpy() with strlscpy()

[Azeem Shaikh]

Please ignore this patch. I made a typo in the title. Resending.

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 9:46 AM Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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>
> ---
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230612232301.2572316-1-azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> Changes from v1 - updated patch title.
>
>  net/wireless/trace.h |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/wireless/trace.h b/net/wireless/trace.h
> index 716a1fa70069..a00da3ebfed5 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/trace.h
> +++ b/net/wireless/trace.h
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
>
>  #define MAXNAME                32
>  #define WIPHY_ENTRY    __array(char, wiphy_name, 32)
> -#define WIPHY_ASSIGN   strlcpy(__entry->wiphy_name, wiphy_name(wiphy), MAXNAME)
> +#define WIPHY_ASSIGN   strscpy(__entry->wiphy_name, wiphy_name(wiphy), MAXNAME)
>  #define WIPHY_PR_FMT   "%s"
>  #define WIPHY_PR_ARG   __entry->wiphy_name
>
> --
> 2.41.0.162.gfafddb0af9-goog
>
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