On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 11:30:49AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > I'm curious where you looked and didn't find documentation -- perhaps > there is an improvement to be made to aim one to where the existing > documentation lives?
My order was the following: - look for kernel doc on the main function implementation in lib/string.c (as found by a grep for an EXPORT_SYMBOL for it) - after not finding it there, but seeing that it has an ifdef for an arch override, which turns out to be unused - then I grepped the Documentation/ directory for it, and while there are quite a few matches for strscpy, they are largely in examples, with the only text referring to strscpy being Documentation/process/deprecated.rst that tells you to use it instead of strcpy, but not how it actually works - after that I realized that some people put the kerneldoc on the declaration, so I looked at that in string.h, but couldn't find it. > > There's some docs at [1]. Perhaps there could be more? > > > > [1]: > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.6-rc6/source/include/linux/fortify-string.h#L292 > > Right, And it's even valid kern-doc, which gets rendered in the kernel > API docs, along with all the other string functions: > https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/kernel-api.html#c.strscpy Well, I never use the generated kerneldoc because it's much harder than just grepping the tree, but indeed it exists even if it's hidden in the most obsfucated way. But at least I know now!
