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change strncpy to strscpy strncpy is now depricated. It may not NUL-terminate the destination string, resulting in potential memory content exposures, unbounded reads, or crashes. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90

Message ID 20250402172504.101576-1-goralbaris@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series change strncpy to strscpy strncpy is now depricated. It may not NUL-terminate the destination string, resulting in potential memory content exposures, unbounded reads, or crashes. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 | expand

Commit Message

Baris Can Goral April 2, 2025, 5:25 p.m. UTC 
Signed-off-by: goralbaris <goralbaris@gmail.com>
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 drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Greg KH April 2, 2025, 7:14 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 08:25:04PM +0300, goralbaris wrote:
> Signed-off-by: goralbaris <goralbaris@gmail.com>

I think something went wrong with your subject line :(

Also, don't use your email alias for signed-off-by please.

thanks,

greg k-h
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diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
index c40217f44b1b..5c0b74e76be2 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@  static ssize_t target_core_item_dbroot_store(struct config_item *item,
 	}
 	filp_close(fp, NULL);
 
-	strncpy(db_root, db_root_stage, read_bytes);
+	strscpy(db_root, db_root_stage, read_bytes);
 	pr_debug("Target_Core_ConfigFS: db_root set to %s\n", db_root);
 
 	r = read_bytes;
@@ -3664,7 +3664,7 @@  static void target_init_dbroot(void)
 	}
 	filp_close(fp, NULL);
 
-	strncpy(db_root, db_root_stage, DB_ROOT_LEN);
+	strscpy(db_root, db_root_stage, DB_ROOT_LEN);
 	pr_debug("Target_Core_ConfigFS: db_root set to %s\n", db_root);
 }