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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, Justin Stitt Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable `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 know `fw_type` must be NUL-terminated based on use here: | static bool fw_type_is_auto(void) | { | return strncmp(fw_type, LIO_FW_NAME_TYPE_AUTO, | sizeof(LIO_FW_NAME_TYPE_AUTO)) =3D=3D 0; | } ...and here | module_param_string(fw_type, fw_type, sizeof(fw_type), 0444); Let's opt to NUL-pad the destination buffer as well so that we maintain the same exact behavior that `strncpy` provided here. A suitable replacement is `strscpy_pad` due to the fact that it guarantees both NUL-termination and NUL-padding on the destination buffer. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncp= y-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt Reviewed-by: Kees Cook --- Note: build-tested only. --- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c b/drivers/net/= ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c index 100daadbea2a..34f02a8ec2ca 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c @@ -1689,7 +1689,7 @@ static int load_firmware(struct octeon_device *oct) =20 if (fw_type_is_auto()) { tmp_fw_type =3D LIO_FW_NAME_TYPE_NIC; - strncpy(fw_type, tmp_fw_type, sizeof(fw_type)); + strscpy_pad(fw_type, tmp_fw_type, sizeof(fw_type)); } else { tmp_fw_type =3D fw_type; } --- base-commit: cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2 change-id: 20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-cavium-liquidio-lio_main-c= -b05f78661635 Best regards, -- Justin Stitt