Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jul 2023 15:22:17 +0100 | From | Simon Horman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: Replace strlcpy with strscpy |
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 05:58:40PM +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote: > strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first. > This read may exceed the destination size limit. > This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read > overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1]. > In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace > strlcpy() here with strscpy(). > No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe. > > [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy > [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89 > > Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
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