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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tomoyo: refactor deprecated strncpy
On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 09:33:44PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
> guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
> _not_ the case for `strncpy`!
>
> It should be noted that the destination buffer is zero-initialized and
> had a max length of `sizeof(dest) - 1`. There is likely _not_ a bug
> present in the current implementation. However, by switching to
> `strscpy` we get the benefit of no longer needing the `- 1`'s from the
> string copy invocations on top of `strscpy` being a safer interface all
> together.
>
> [1]: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
> [2]: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>

Thanks! This looks correct to me.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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Kees Cook

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