Re: [PATCH v3] hwmon: refactor deprecated strncpy

[Justin Stitt]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 11:05 PM Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 9:49 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 05:41:46AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> > > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
> > >
> > > Let's refactor this kcalloc() + strncpy() into a kmemdup_nul() which has
> > > more obvious behavior and is less error prone.
> > >
> > > To avoid truncating the last byte supply `...length + 1` to
> > > kmemdup_nul() as `element->string.length` does not account for the
> > > trailing null as made obvious from it's definition (and associated
> > > comment):
> > > |       u32 length;   /* # of bytes in string, excluding trailing null */
> > >
> > > ... this is precisely what the original kcalloc invocation did as well.
> > >
> > > Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
> > > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> > > Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I have multiple patches with the hwmon: prefix but no driver,
> > like this one, suggesting the change is in the hwmon core,
> > when in reality it is in some hwmon driver.
> > I am not going to apply any of those, and I am not even going to
> > look into them.
>
> Whoops, I was using some tooling to auto-fetch prefixes and the style
> of "xyz: (stuff in paren)" isn't always caught.
>
> I will resend with a fixed subject line matching the appropriate driver.

Erhm, In this case I seem to have caught the mistake over in [v5].
>
> >
> > Guenter
>
> Thanks
> Justin

[v5]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230926-strncpy-drivers-hwmon-acpi_power_meter-c-v5-1-3fc31a9daf99@xxxxxxxxxx/