[PATCH] bna: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

From: Justin Stitt
Date: Thu Oct 05 2023 - 17:05:50 EST


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

bfa_ioc_get_adapter_manufacturer() simply copies a string literal into
`manufacturer`.

NUL-padding is not needed because bfa_ioc_get_adapter_manufacturer()'s
only caller passes `ad_attr` (which is from ioc_attr) which is then
memset to 0.
bfa_nw_ioc_get_attr() ->
bfa_ioc_get_adapter_attr() ->
bfa_nw_ioc_get_attr() ->
memset((void *)ioc_attr, 0, sizeof(struct bfa_ioc_attr));

Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to
the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer
without unnecessarily NUL-padding.

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/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bfa_ioc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bfa_ioc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bfa_ioc.c
index b07522ac3e74..497cb65f2d06 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bfa_ioc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bfa_ioc.c
@@ -2839,7 +2839,7 @@ bfa_ioc_get_adapter_optrom_ver(struct bfa_ioc *ioc, char *optrom_ver)
static void
bfa_ioc_get_adapter_manufacturer(struct bfa_ioc *ioc, char *manufacturer)
{
- strncpy(manufacturer, BFA_MFG_NAME, BFA_ADAPTER_MFG_NAME_LEN);
+ strscpy(manufacturer, BFA_MFG_NAME, sizeof(manufacturer));
}

static void

---
base-commit: cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2
change-id: 20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-brocade-bna-bfa_ioc-c-68f13966f388

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