On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 12:42:52AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> We're doing some needless string copies when trying to assign the proper
> `prop` string. We can make `prop` a const char* and simply assign to
> string literals.
> 
> For the case where a format string is used, let's extract the parsing
> logic out into sx9324_parse_phase_prop(). We no longer need to create
> copies or allocate new memory.
> 
> sx9324_parse_phase_prop() will simply return the default def value if it
> fails.
> 
> This also cleans up some deprecated strncpy() uses [1].
> 
> Link: 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
>  [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <[email protected]>

Yeah, I like this approach. Totally removes the string copying and
creates a helper that does the "heavy lifting". :)

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

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Kees Cook

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