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Date:   Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:55:25 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
Cc:     Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
        Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi017@gmail.com>,
        Sharvari Harisangam <sharvari.harisangam@nxp.com>,
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: mwifiex: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
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On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 03:06:25AM +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().
> 
> Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
> is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).
> 
> [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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