strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.
We expect both `params` and `id` to be NUL-terminated based on their
usage with format strings:
format_node_data(iuparams, iunodeid, &lir->incident_node);
format_node_data(auparams, aunodeid, &lir->attached_node);
switch (lir->iq.class) {
case LIR_IQ_CLASS_DEGRADED:
pr_warn("Link degraded: RS=%02x RSID=%04x IC=%02x "
"IUPARAMS=%s IUNODEID=%s AUPARAMS=%s AUNODEID=%s\n",
sei_area->rs, sei_area->rsid, lir->ic, iuparams,
iunodeid, auparams, aunodeid);
NUL-padding is not required as both `params` and `id` have been memset
to 0:
memset(params, 0, PARAMS_LEN);
memset(id, 0, NODEID_LEN);
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.
Note that there's no overread bugs in the current implementation as the
string literal "n/a" has a size much smaller than PARAMS_LEN or
NODEID_LEN. Nonetheless, let's favor strscpy().
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]>
---
Note: build-tested only.
Found with: $ rg "strncpy\("
---
drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c b/drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c
index 0abd77f4b664..9319f448a6e2 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c
@@ -393,8 +393,8 @@ static void format_node_data(char *params, char *id, struct
node_descriptor *nd)
memset(id, 0, NODEID_LEN);
if (nd->validity != ND_VALIDITY_VALID) {
- strncpy(params, "n/a", PARAMS_LEN - 1);
- strncpy(id, "n/a", NODEID_LEN - 1);
+ strscpy(params, "n/a", PARAMS_LEN);
+ strscpy(id, "n/a", NODEID_LEN);
return;
}
---
base-commit: 9c5d00cb7b6bbc5a7965d9ab7d223b5402d1f02c
change-id: 20231023-strncpy-drivers-s390-cio-chsc-c-3bafdc7535b7
Best regards,
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Justin Stitt <[email protected]>
