RE: [PATCH] soc: fsl: qe: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

[Leo Li]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2023 9:36 PM
> To: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@xxxxxxx>; linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Leo Li
> <leoyang.li@xxxxxxx>; linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: fsl: qe: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with
> strscpy
> 
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 1:20 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 02:14:25AM +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.
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
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> > >
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> > > Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> 
> Friendly ping on this.

Sorry for the late response.  But I found some old discussions with the conclusion to be not converting old users.  Has this been changed later on?
https://lwn.net/Articles/659214/

Regards,
Leo