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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. We expect netdev->name to be NUL-terminated based on its use with format strings: | if (q_vector->rx.ring && q_vector->tx.ring) | sprintf(q_vector->name, "%s-TxRx-%u", netdev->name, Furthermore, we do not need NUL-padding as netdev is already zero-allocated: | netdev =3D alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(struct igc_adapter), | IGC_MAX_TX_QUEUES); ... alloc_etherdev() -> alloc_etherdev_mq() -> alloc_etherdev_mqs() -> alloc_netdev_mqs() ... | p =3D kvzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL= ); 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. Let's also opt for the more idiomatic strscpy usage of (dest, src, sizeof(dest)) instead of (dest, src, SOME_LEN). 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/igc/igc_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c b/drivers/net/ethern= et/intel/igc/igc_main.c index 98de34d0ce07..e9bb403bbacf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c @@ -6935,7 +6935,7 @@ static int igc_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, */ igc_get_hw_control(adapter); =20 - strncpy(netdev->name, "eth%d", IFNAMSIZ); + strscpy(netdev->name, "eth%d", sizeof(netdev->name)); err =3D register_netdev(netdev); if (err) goto err_register; --- base-commit: cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2 change-id: 20231010-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-intel-igc-igc_main-c-26efa= 209ddb5 Best regards, -- Justin Stitt