Re: [PATCH] parisc: Replace strlcpy() with strscpy()

From: Helge Deller
Date: Fri Nov 17 2023 - 09:48:35 EST


On 11/16/23 20:13, Kees Cook 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].
Additionally, it returns the size of the source string, not the
resulting size of the destination string. In an effort to remove strlcpy()
completely[2], replace strlcpy() here with strscpy().

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89 [2]
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Cc: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-parisc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

applied.

Thanks!
Helge

---
arch/parisc/kernel/processor.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/processor.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/processor.c
index 29e2750f86a4..e95a977ba5f3 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/processor.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/processor.c
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ show_cpuinfo (struct seq_file *m, void *v)
char cpu_name[60], *p;

/* strip PA path from CPU name to not confuse lscpu */
- strlcpy(cpu_name, per_cpu(cpu_data, 0).dev->name, sizeof(cpu_name));
+ strscpy(cpu_name, per_cpu(cpu_data, 0).dev->name, sizeof(cpu_name));
p = strrchr(cpu_name, '[');
if (p)
*(--p) = 0;