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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2023 10:21:59 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
Cc:     Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-buf/sw_sync: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with
 strscpy
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On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 02:19:43AM +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
> overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> strlcpy() here with strscpy().
> No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
> 
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
> 
> Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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Kees Cook