From: Justin Stitt Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 04:45:31 +0000 (+0000) Subject: drm/i915: refactor deprecated strncpy X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5642639bd4f772a09bc4cb05ac7ac9378c2c3f5e;p=linux.git drm/i915: refactor deprecated strncpy `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]. We should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces. A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without unnecessarily NUL-padding. `ctx` is zero allocated and as such strncpy's NUL-padding behavior was strictly a performance hit which is now resolved. 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 Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi --- diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/selftests/mock_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/selftests/mock_context.c index 8ac6726ec16b7..e199d7dbb8769 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/selftests/mock_context.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/selftests/mock_context.c @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ mock_context(struct drm_i915_private *i915, if (name) { struct i915_ppgtt *ppgtt; - strncpy(ctx->name, name, sizeof(ctx->name) - 1); + strscpy(ctx->name, name, sizeof(ctx->name)); ppgtt = mock_ppgtt(i915, name); if (!ppgtt)