From nobody Mon Feb 9 09:07:24 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70889C25B47 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:39:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230088AbjJWTjt (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:39:49 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:50492 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229568AbjJWTjr (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:39:47 -0400 Received: from mail-yw1-x114a.google.com (mail-yw1-x114a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::114a]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3088AC0 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-yw1-x114a.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-5a81a80097fso50808727b3.3 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:39:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20230601; t=1698089984; x=1698694784; darn=vger.kernel.org; h=cc:to:from:subject:message-id:mime-version:date:from:to:cc:subject :date:message-id:reply-to; bh=u9EIZiW1HwjzgzPQnsdOlRK+mgWuyYzh91PBmK2SZvQ=; b=pZLrZw0YfuDygzr91zxC7gJYE5umiWM/sbZ6RQSoXdcm0v/A/oninyLNitxrTWpnNZ hWqqH2CFK2iaunA47NRngSe5yJ/mAiJpq7Zs7enmDKe3QN1xJIU4+oLQDdPsY+j/ulXi Q5SJuGfNjNG8XJmmG3lj0iFlN+w0kUT2Nweq2oBcpRUccS4kc13c2eKDATqTJs6wCMGg LMmedRNCfNa1gsdPmIIcKd3opb+pSU+y8uyUSjHmMiC8LBZX1UfDlLVGmBGJOzdsb+VA h6osO4rORHD5Tw8W3biqAIB3MvPFGEXP6U17OWakeWiuWhesz2aXd8ZcvT7YR/fE18Wf dKGw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1698089984; x=1698694784; h=cc:to:from:subject:message-id:mime-version:date:x-gm-message-state :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=u9EIZiW1HwjzgzPQnsdOlRK+mgWuyYzh91PBmK2SZvQ=; b=sh53MfrUxNQShjR6+fyd8UVsz7EFe5ivs8+ndgkVx37qwK5co+DvwrHg9OhTdXe/L5 BFbdnPR4PGBdZTV603s7BV+C+Kg94sJzYYlVmWeHyuuznaDQtzhlfzrrX/o6cG/o4/aQ bUY2jr9SFegDdWnJGKRnpYyZ6yLECR0WNEgF9zRMgDoshoEQnul1KADFeyPmJec4Xb30 BALwzRy7k9sHkqhLuLlcI7eXA6GosbBAZrG/pLnpJpNOGDnxt1+NiZjd5+MNg76lg/Ak I1Fpg2MmrkvpIp+Q0ALi4slwLH9YwT6ULo8My3XflI2IGQQ4v08RrMvZ6ei7vK3nrXLJ n/ew== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YyX2ub6PhK+O6tE9PU2bvClNQTWqePhqpFvHaYVLTQSI9GIoEW0 t28xq9YHDJb5sqvH3GdDIEdDqqIqJcWQ4rQhSg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IGK4A3kzKHMuI1vfQcGREADhmi6Xw83SP8yDuQv0J3EKfsflMNbU94U/eagV1Cxkz8W4vwLPtTNxoEOQ4RlHg== X-Received: from jstitt-linux1.c.googlers.com ([fda3:e722:ac3:cc00:2b:ff92:c0a8:23b5]) (user=justinstitt job=sendgmr) by 2002:a81:524f:0:b0:59b:f3a2:cd79 with SMTP id g76-20020a81524f000000b0059bf3a2cd79mr209796ywb.8.1698089984390; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:39:39 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-B4-Tracking: v=1; b=H4sIAPrLNmUC/x2NwQ6CQAwFf4X0bJOyJKL+ijEEl6f04ILthkAI/ +7GwxzmMrOTwxROt2onw6KuUypSnyqKY5/eYB2KU5DQ1AX2bCnOGw+mC8zZm6twQuYv8tjFydB 9ek0cWZ4CyOXcBkQqvdnw0vX/uj+O4wfaSOZzewAAAA== X-Developer-Key: i=justinstitt@google.com; a=ed25519; pk=tC3hNkJQTpNX/gLKxTNQKDmiQl6QjBNCGKJINqAdJsE= X-Developer-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; t=1698089983; l=2072; i=justinstitt@google.com; s=20230717; h=from:subject:message-id; bh=M5RJKmWPvcJapRTNGdtENHYtsTUHGQvR0yt/b2ASDXM=; b=ZhkAnJlpERSNbPEUqrn6noB5gdUU1Q+eak5GCE3RG37c9uzSozI+Cq7MPmxpD2XXjuYIF4rjZ ZcOVJ3phr4bD4D9lgbRI2UQc3Ts2rIWms6GJlebnY2kx5Na3GN7KOpl X-Mailer: b4 0.12.3 Message-ID: <20231023-strncpy-drivers-s390-net-qeth_core_main-c-v1-1-e7ce65454446@google.com> Subject: [PATCH] s390/qeth: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy From: Justin Stitt To: Alexandra Winter , Wenjia Zhang , Heiko Carstens , Vasily Gorbik , Alexander Gordeev , Christian Borntraeger , Sven Schnelle Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.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 new_entry->dbf_name to be NUL-terminated based on its use with strcmp(): | if (strcmp(entry->dbf_name, name) =3D=3D 0) { Moreover, NUL-padding is not required as new_entry is kzalloc'd just before this assignment: | new_entry =3D kzalloc(sizeof(struct qeth_dbf_entry), GFP_KERNEL); ... rendering any future NUL-byte assignments (like the ones strncpy() does) redundant. 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. 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 Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Thorsten Winkler Tested-by: Thorsten Winkler --- Note: build-tested only. Found with: $ rg "strncpy\(" --- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core= _main.c index cd783290bde5..6af2511e070c 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c @@ -6226,7 +6226,7 @@ static int qeth_add_dbf_entry(struct qeth_card *card,= char *name) new_entry =3D kzalloc(sizeof(struct qeth_dbf_entry), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new_entry) goto err_dbg; - strncpy(new_entry->dbf_name, name, DBF_NAME_LEN); + strscpy(new_entry->dbf_name, name, sizeof(new_entry->dbf_name)); new_entry->dbf_info =3D card->debug; mutex_lock(&qeth_dbf_list_mutex); list_add(&new_entry->dbf_list, &qeth_dbf_list); --- base-commit: 9c5d00cb7b6bbc5a7965d9ab7d223b5402d1f02c change-id: 20231023-strncpy-drivers-s390-net-qeth_core_main-c-0b0ee08672ec Best regards, -- Justin Stitt