drivers/power/supply/bq2515x_charger.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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 bq2515x->model_name to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with
sysfs_emit and format strings:
val->strval is assigned to bq2515x->model_name in
bq2515x_mains_get_property():
| val->strval = bq2515x->model_name;
... then in power_supply_sysfs.c we use value.strval with a format string:
| ret = sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", value.strval);
we assigned value.strval via:
| ret = power_supply_get_property(psy, psp, &value);
... which invokes psy->desc->get_property():
| return psy->desc->get_property(psy, psp, val);
with bq2515x_mains_get_property():
| static const struct power_supply_desc bq2515x_mains_desc = {
...
| .get_property = bq2515x_mains_get_property,
Moreover, no NUL-padding is required as bq2515x is zero-allocated in
bq2515x_charger.c:
| bq2515x = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*bq2515x), GFP_KERNEL);
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 to use the more idiomatic strscpy() usage of (dest, src,
sizeof(dest)) as this more closely ties the destination buffer and the
length.
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Similar-to: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231020-strncpy-drivers-power-supply-bq24190_charger-c-v1-1-e896223cb795@google.com/
---
Note: build-tested only.
Found with: $ rg "strncpy\("
---
drivers/power/supply/bq2515x_charger.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/bq2515x_charger.c b/drivers/power/supply/bq2515x_charger.c
index 1dbacc9b015d..b4ea1707304a 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/bq2515x_charger.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/bq2515x_charger.c
@@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ static int bq2515x_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
bq2515x->dev = dev;
- strncpy(bq2515x->model_name, id->name, I2C_NAME_SIZE);
+ strscpy(bq2515x->model_name, id->name, sizeof(bq2515x->model_name));
bq2515x->device_id = id->driver_data;
---
base-commit: bb55d7f7f7445abcc8db50e6a65d4315e79f75c7
change-id: 20231020-strncpy-drivers-power-supply-bq2515x_charger-c-cbf1811334f2
Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:59:34 +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> 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 bq2515x->model_name to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with
> sysfs_emit and format strings:
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] power: supply: bq2515x: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
commit: e3c2af5d49bb96ad460ef6aa873975fb0f7c7f17
Best regards,
--
Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 06:59:34PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> 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 bq2515x->model_name to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with
> sysfs_emit and format strings:
>
> val->strval is assigned to bq2515x->model_name in
> bq2515x_mains_get_property():
> | val->strval = bq2515x->model_name;
>
> ... then in power_supply_sysfs.c we use value.strval with a format string:
> | ret = sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", value.strval);
>
> we assigned value.strval via:
> | ret = power_supply_get_property(psy, psp, &value);
> ... which invokes psy->desc->get_property():
> | return psy->desc->get_property(psy, psp, val);
>
> with bq2515x_mains_get_property():
> | static const struct power_supply_desc bq2515x_mains_desc = {
> ...
> | .get_property = bq2515x_mains_get_property,
>
> Moreover, no NUL-padding is required as bq2515x is zero-allocated in
> bq2515x_charger.c:
> | bq2515x = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*bq2515x), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> 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 to use the more idiomatic strscpy() usage of (dest, src,
> sizeof(dest)) as this more closely ties the destination buffer and the
> length.
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
> Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
This looks like a good replacement, just like the prior I2C change.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Kees Cook
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