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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni Cc: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, 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. The "...-1" pattern makes it evident that netdev->name is expected to be NUL-terminated. Meanwhile, it seems NUL-padding is not required due to alloc_etherdev zero-allocating the buffer. Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without unnecessarily NUL-padding. This is in line with other uses of strscpy on netdev->name: $ rg "strscpy\(netdev\->name.*pci.*" drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c 7455: strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name)); drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c 10839: strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name)); Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncp= y-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.htm= l [2] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt --- Note: build-tested only. --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel= /e100.c index d3fdc290937f..01f0f12035ca 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c @@ -2841,7 +2841,7 @@ static int e100_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const str= uct pci_device_id *ent) netdev->netdev_ops =3D &e100_netdev_ops; netdev->ethtool_ops =3D &e100_ethtool_ops; netdev->watchdog_timeo =3D E100_WATCHDOG_PERIOD; - strncpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name) - 1); + strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name)); =20 nic =3D netdev_priv(netdev); netif_napi_add_weight(netdev, &nic->napi, e100_poll, E100_NAPI_WEIGHT); --- base-commit: cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2 change-id: 20231009-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-intel-e100-c-4547179d9f2c Best regards, -- Justin Stitt