[PATCH] net: dsa: lan9303: replace deprecated strncpy with memcpy

From: Justin Stitt
Date: Wed Oct 04 2023 - 20:30:31 EST


`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous
interfaces.

Let's opt for memcpy as we are copying strings into slices of length
`ETH_GSTRING_LEN` within the `data` buffer. Other similar get_strings()
implementations [2] [3] use memcpy().

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.3/source/drivers/infiniband/ulp/opa_vnic/opa_vnic_ethtool.c#L167 [2]
Link: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.3/source/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ethtool.c#L137 [3]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Note: build-tested only.
---
drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c b/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c
index ee67adeb2cdb..665d69384b62 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c
@@ -1013,8 +1013,8 @@ static void lan9303_get_strings(struct dsa_switch *ds, int port,
return;

for (u = 0; u < ARRAY_SIZE(lan9303_mib); u++) {
- strncpy(data + u * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, lan9303_mib[u].name,
- ETH_GSTRING_LEN);
+ memcpy(data + u * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, lan9303_mib[u].name,
+ ETH_GSTRING_LEN);
}
}


---
base-commit: cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2
change-id: 20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-dsa-lan9303-core-c-6386858e5c22

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>