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Justin Stitt authored
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 can see that client->name should be NUL-terminated based on its usage with a %s C-string format specifier. | client->thread = kthread_run(ioreq_task, client, "VM%u-%s", | client->vm->vmid, client->name); NUL-padding is not required as client is already zero-allocated: | client = kzalloc(sizeof(*client), GFP_KERNEL); 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 this patch relies on the _new_ 2-argument version of strscpy() introduced in Commit e6584c39 ("string: Allow 2-argument 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: <linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240320-strncpy-drivers-virt-acrn-ioreq-c-v1-1-db6996770341@google.comSigned-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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