Re: wifi: mt7601u: replace strlcpy() with strscpy()

[Kalle Valo]

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 DEV_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>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.

7edbd53a58a8 wifi: mt7601u: replace strlcpy() with strscpy()

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