On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 12:56:08AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
> [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
> interfaces.
> 
> NUL-padding is not necessary as host_info is initialized to
> `ena_dev->host_attr.host_info` which is ultimately zero-initialized via
> alloc_etherdev_mq().
> 
> 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: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <[email protected]>

Looks right to me. Length nicely adjusted. :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

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Kees Cook

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