On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 09:39:24PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote: > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]. > > `make_first_field()` should use similar implementation to `make_field()` > due to memcpy having more obvious behavior here. The end result yields > the same behavior as the previous `strncpy`-based implementation > including the NUL-padding. > > Link: > 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-harden...@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> -- Kees Cook
