Re: [PATCH] crypto: qat - refactor deprecated strncpy

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Wed Sep 20 2023 - 01:21:40 EST


On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 12:51:05AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> We should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces.
>
> `buf` is expected to be NUL-terminated for its eventual use in
> `kstrtoul()` and NUL-padding is not required.
>
> Due to the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the
> fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer.
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
> Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Note: build-tested only.
> ---
> drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_uclo.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch applied. Thanks.
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