Re: [PATCH v2] usbip: usbip_host: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jun 15 2023 - 05:34:15 EST


On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 02:10:26PM +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().
>
> Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
> is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).
>
> [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/20230613004402.3540432-1-azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> Changes from v1 - uses "< 0" instead of "== -E2BIG".

Please fix the reported errors from the build bot.

thanks

greg k-h