2023-06-13 08:39:34

by Kalle Valo

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mediatek: strlcpy withreturn

Azeem Shaikh <[email protected]> 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().
>
> Direct replacement is safe here since DEV_ASSIGN is only used by
> TRACE macros and the return values are ignored.
>
> [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 <[email protected]>

The title should be:

wifi: mt7601u: replace strlcpy() with strscpy()

I can fix that, no need to resend because of this.

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2023-06-13 14:21:22

by Azeem Shaikh

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mediatek: strlcpy withreturn

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 4:35 AM Kalle Valo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Azeem Shaikh <[email protected]> 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().
> >
> > Direct replacement is safe here since DEV_ASSIGN is only used by
> > TRACE macros and the return values are ignored.
> >
> > [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 <[email protected]>
>
> The title should be:
>
> wifi: mt7601u: replace strlcpy() with strscpy()
>
> I can fix that, no need to resend because of this.
>

Thanks Kalle!

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