Messages in this thread | | | From | Kees Cook <> | Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:31:07 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] lib: Add safe string funtions |
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 3:24 PM Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> wrote: > During your talk at LCA you mentioned that we could do with a couple > more safe string functions. One to zero the tail of the destination > buffer after call to strscpy() and also the self explanatory > strscpy_from_user().
Thanks for jumping in with this! :)
> I couldn't work out if this is a false positive or not? Does the new > config option CONFIG_TEST_STRING need more documentation? I don't see > where extra docs should be added and it seems self explanatory as is.
Usually this just means the help string in Kconfig is "too short". Sometimes this is a false positive -- really up to you if you think it needs more. :)
On to individual patches...
-- Kees Cook
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