net: ax88796c: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
authorJustin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Thu, 5 Oct 2023 01:06:26 +0000 (01:06 +0000)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Fri, 6 Oct 2023 22:55:29 +0000 (15:55 -0700)
`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without
unnecessarily NUL-padding.

It should be noted that there doesn't currently exist a bug here as
DRV_NAME is a small string literal which means no overread bugs are
present.

Also to note, other ethernet drivers are using strscpy in a similar
pattern:
|       dec/tulip/tulip_core.c
|       861:    strscpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));
|
|       8390/ax88796.c
|       582:    strscpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));
|
|       dec/tulip/dmfe.c
|       1077:   strscpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));
|
|       8390/etherh.c
|       558:    strscpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-asix-ax88796c_ioctl-c-v1-1-6fafdc38b170@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_ioctl.c

index 916ae380a0044195066c5e7b9bb30e67e3536b84..7d2fe2e5af925c807865900dd2940f41d1a5c03f 100644 (file)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static void
 ax88796c_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *ndev, struct ethtool_drvinfo *info)
 {
        /* Inherit standard device info */
-       strncpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));
+       strscpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));
 }
 
 static u32 ax88796c_get_msglevel(struct net_device *ndev)