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

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Date: Wed Jun 14 2023 - 14:49:25 EST


Hi Kees!

On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 11:44 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2023 16:30:41 +0000, Azeem Shaikh 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().
> > No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
> >
> > [...]
>
> Build tested with sh4 GCC 13.1 from:
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/13.1.0/
>
> with defconfig and:
> CONFIG_CPU_SUBTYPE_SH7343=y
> CONFIG_SH_DMA=y
> CONFIG_SH_DMA_API=y
>
> Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks!
>
> [1/1] sh: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
> https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/ca64da3052be
>

Apologies, this fell off my table. I should have acked and tested this being the
SuperH maintainer. If you can still update the patch in your tree, I can both
test and ack this patch.

Adrian

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