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hwmon: (ibmpowernv) Replace deprecated strncpy() with memcpy()
author
Justin Stitt
<justinstitt@google.com>
Tue, 19 Sep 2023 05:22:51 +0000
(
05:22
+0000)
committer
Kees Cook
<keescook@chromium.org>
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 21:48:31 +0000
(14:48 -0700)
`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
A suitable replacement is `memcpy` as we've already precisely calculated
the number of bytes to copy while `buf` has been explicitly
zero-initialized:
| char buf[8] = { 0 };
Link:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
Link:
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>
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230919-strncpy-drivers-hwmon-ibmpowernv-c-v2-1-37d3e64172bc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
drivers/hwmon/ibmpowernv.c
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diff --git
a/drivers/hwmon/ibmpowernv.c
b/drivers/hwmon/ibmpowernv.c
index 594254d6a72dde1dd83b492b038bcf3dbb9f25c6..70ca833259abfe31b920a803decec14a6840d1c3 100644
(file)
--- a/
drivers/hwmon/ibmpowernv.c
+++ b/
drivers/hwmon/ibmpowernv.c
@@
-234,7
+234,7
@@
static int get_sensor_index_attr(const char *name, u32 *index, char *attr)
if (copy_len >= sizeof(buf))
return -EINVAL;
-
strn
cpy(buf, hash_pos + 1, copy_len);
+
mem
cpy(buf, hash_pos + 1, copy_len);
err = kstrtou32(buf, 10, index);
if (err)