On 10/23/23 21:24, 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.

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]>

LGTM. Thank you.

Reviewed-by: Vineeth Vijayan <[email protected]>

I can push this to s390-tree and Heiko/Vasily will upstream it.

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