From: Justin Stitt <[email protected]> strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces.
String copy operations involving manual pointer offset and length calculations followed by explicit NUL-byte assignments are best changed to either strscpy or memcpy. strscpy is not a drop-in replacement as @len would need a one subtracted from it to avoid truncating the source string. To not sabotage readability of the current code, use memcpy (retaining the manual NUL assignment) as this unambiguously describes the desired behavior. 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 [2] Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241014-strncpy-kernel-trace-trace_events_filter-c-v2-1-d821e81e3...@google.com Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]> --- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c index 0c611b281a5b..78051de581e7 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c @@ -1616,7 +1616,7 @@ static int parse_pred(const char *str, void *data, goto err_free; } - strncpy(num_buf, str + s, len); + memcpy(num_buf, str + s, len); num_buf[len] = 0; ret = kstrtoul(num_buf, 0, &ip); @@ -1694,7 +1694,7 @@ static int parse_pred(const char *str, void *data, if (!pred->regex) goto err_mem; pred->regex->len = len; - strncpy(pred->regex->pattern, str + s, len); + memcpy(pred->regex->pattern, str + s, len); pred->regex->pattern[len] = 0; } else if (!strncmp(str + i, "CPUS", 4)) { @@ -1859,7 +1859,7 @@ static int parse_pred(const char *str, void *data, if (!pred->regex) goto err_mem; pred->regex->len = len; - strncpy(pred->regex->pattern, str + s, len); + memcpy(pred->regex->pattern, str + s, len); pred->regex->pattern[len] = 0; filter_build_regex(pred); @@ -1919,7 +1919,7 @@ static int parse_pred(const char *str, void *data, goto err_free; } - strncpy(num_buf, str + s, len); + memcpy(num_buf, str + s, len); num_buf[len] = 0; /* Make sure it is a value */ -- 2.45.2
