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author | Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> | 2023-10-17 12:04:06 -0700 |
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committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2023-10-18 18:10:17 -0700 |
commit | 341359e034e45ac03f5019b7753d073bfed23190 (patch) | |
tree | 4b5dc792bf1b42a8b9937ac763a8669b7a019d9b | |
parent | 7677f635bf800dc0dd684713c4578ad81f7ad0c3 (diff) | |
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e1000: 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.
We can see that netdev->name is expected to be NUL-terminated based on
it's usage with format strings:
| pr_info("%s NIC Link is Down\n",
| netdev->name);
A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without
unnecessarily NUL-padding.
This is in line with other uses of strscpy on netdev->name:
$ rg "strscpy\(netdev\->name.*pci.*"
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
7455: strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name));
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
10839: strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name));
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
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017190411.2199743-5-jacob.e.keller@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c index da6e303ad99b..1d1e93686af2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c @@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ static int e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) netdev->watchdog_timeo = 5 * HZ; netif_napi_add(netdev, &adapter->napi, e1000_clean); - strncpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name) - 1); + strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name)); adapter->bd_number = cards_found; |