hwmon: (acpi_power_meter) replace open-coded kmemdup_nul
authorJustin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:59:15 +0000 (06:59 +0000)
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tue, 24 Oct 2023 21:10:53 +0000 (14:10 -0700)
commit9cca73d7b4bfec75b2fcef751015f31691afa792
tree2e0641bb71e0c56cd74b87c4f448257dfc77698e
parentfed2ef7abaebe5e0207cd52ae52721ea3da3b5ba
hwmon: (acpi_power_meter) replace open-coded kmemdup_nul

`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].

Let's refactor this kcalloc() + strncpy() into a kmemdup_nul() which has
more obvious behavior and is less error prone.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230926-strncpy-drivers-hwmon-acpi_power_meter-c-v5-1-3fc31a9daf99@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
drivers/hwmon/acpi_power_meter.c