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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 expect chinfo.name to be NUL-terminated based on its use with format strings and sprintf: rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c 165: dev_err(dev, "failed to open %s\n", eptdev->chinfo.name); 368: return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", eptdev->chinfo.name); ... and with strcmp(): | static struct rpmsg_endpoint *qcom_glink_create_ept(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev, | rpmsg_rx_cb_t cb, | void *priv, | struct rpmsg_channel_info | chinfo) | ... | const char *name = chinfo.name; | ... | if (!strcmp(channel->name, name)) Since chinfo is initialized as such (just above the strscpy()): | struct rpmsg_channel_info chinfo = { | .src = rpwwan->rpdev->src, | .dst = RPMSG_ADDR_ANY, | }; ... we know other members are zero-initialized. This means no NUL-padding is required (as any NUL-byte assignments are redundant). Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` due to the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without unnecessarily NUL-padding. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231019-strncpy-drivers-net-wwan-rpmsg_wwan_ctrl-c-v2-1-ecf9b5a39430@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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