This pattern of strncpy with some pointer arithmetic setting fixed-sized
intervals with string literal data is a bit weird so let's use
ethtool_puts() as this has more obvious behavior and is less-error
prone.
Nicely, we also get to drop a usage of the now deprecated strncpy() [1].
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
---
Changes in v4:
- drop unnecessary { } (thanks Alexander L.)
- carry Kees' RB because of trivial change
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408-strncpy-drivers-net-dsa-lan9303-core-c-v3-1-0c313694d25b@google.com
Changes in v3:
- use ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-dsa-lan9303-core-c-v2-1-feb452a532db@google.com
Changes in v2:
- use ethtool_sprintf (thanks Alexander)
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-dsa-lan9303-core-c-v1-1-5a66c538147e@google.com
---
drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c b/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c
index fcb20eac332a..f3b50adae865 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c
@@ -1007,15 +1007,14 @@ static const struct lan9303_mib_desc lan9303_mib[] = {
static void lan9303_get_strings(struct dsa_switch *ds, int port,
u32 stringset, uint8_t *data)
{
+ u8 *buf = data;
unsigned int u;
if (stringset != ETH_SS_STATS)
return;
- for (u = 0; u < ARRAY_SIZE(lan9303_mib); u++) {
- strncpy(data + u * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, lan9303_mib[u].name,
- ETH_GSTRING_LEN);
- }
+ for (u = 0; u < ARRAY_SIZE(lan9303_mib); u++)
+ ethtool_puts(&buf, lan9303_mib[u].name);
}
static void lan9303_get_ethtool_stats(struct dsa_switch *ds, int port,
---
base-commit: c85af715cac0a951eea97393378e84bb49384734
change-id: 20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-dsa-lan9303-core-c-6386858e5c22
Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>