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| author | Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> | 2023-10-19 00:18:24 +0300 |
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| committer | Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> | 2023-10-23 20:28:44 +0300 |
| commit | fb329e8b1d88dd09b6f46d7ba3d9243599221b68 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a645113230c9b612391a703cd5738f7a9e0abe8 /drivers/net/wireless/ti | |
| parent | 70bd8e0d01f6c098a72bdd799907c5208ccb8dfe (diff) | |
| download | linux-fb329e8b1d88dd09b6f46d7ba3d9243599221b68.tar.xz | |
wifi: wl18xx: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.
wl->chip.phy_fw_ver_str is obviously intended to be NUL-terminated by
the deliberate comment telling us as much. Furthermore, its only use is
drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/debugfs.c shows us it should be
NUL-terminated since its used in scnprintf:
492 | DRIVER_STATE_PRINT_STR(chip.phy_fw_ver_str);
which is defined as:
| #define DRIVER_STATE_PRINT_STR(x) DRIVER_STATE_PRINT(x, "%s")
...
| #define DRIVER_STATE_PRINT(x, fmt) \
| (res += scnprintf(buf + res, DRIVER_STATE_BUF_LEN - res,\
| #x " = " fmt "\n", wl->x))
We can also see that NUL-padding is not required.
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.
The very fact that a plain-english comment had to be made alongside a
manual NUL-byte assignment for such a simple purpose shows why strncpy
is faulty. It has non-obvious behavior that has to be clarified every
time it is used (and if it isn't then the reader suffers).
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231018-strncpy-drivers-net-wireless-ti-wl18xx-main-c-v2-1-ab828a491ce5@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ti')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/main.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/main.c index d4a89401f2c4..20d9181b3410 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/main.c @@ -1516,12 +1516,9 @@ static int wl18xx_handle_static_data(struct wl1271 *wl, struct wl18xx_static_data_priv *static_data_priv = (struct wl18xx_static_data_priv *) static_data->priv; - strncpy(wl->chip.phy_fw_ver_str, static_data_priv->phy_version, + strscpy(wl->chip.phy_fw_ver_str, static_data_priv->phy_version, sizeof(wl->chip.phy_fw_ver_str)); - /* make sure the string is NULL-terminated */ - wl->chip.phy_fw_ver_str[sizeof(wl->chip.phy_fw_ver_str) - 1] = '\0'; - wl1271_info("PHY firmware version: %s", static_data_priv->phy_version); return 0; |