From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162E0E81E18 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2023 23:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1379048AbjJIXPW (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2023 19:15:22 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38588 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1379068AbjJIXPG (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2023 19:15:06 -0400 Received: from mail-ua1-x92d.google.com (mail-ua1-x92d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::92d]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D72A26A6; Mon, 9 Oct 2023 16:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ua1-x92d.google.com with SMTP id a1e0cc1a2514c-7b5f0bbe137so216991241.2; Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:12:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20230601; t=1696893125; x=1697497925; darn=vger.kernel.org; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=cBvYA2ZtciSSP4BymFX/zrFacKuKzAMWo9vVUVhdRHg=; b=hLKRPo4TtZv1TluLN/cfBRSLpkEwYaTe2YKxDyH90OfaR9I9Y6O4M+QK38lg7aLzMH B9KWV0C0HIUkQTKj2RLxVYYaHLXHLoQUWtNwI5GFy2NwQ8TyHGJO6Ybqmeom/u8JVl/d IMXjXRvUEORFR6DPvrlnsL6T7ESGUAWXkh2SPzTUv+01BS7Yj0IFUBmjEAdq+FrD9AVP 2inr3yRipughj0eH3UVSUmm5HRh1tffUvG9orn0C9jCy27JKM6Sy/Bn4fx30UbDGDdH1 6hxB0LxWDvFaMVA+6weKeLhL/1FDojje4vqyDudi0tDrljaY9rb/ZC4XPWFDIz7VjQur cSXg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1696893125; x=1697497925; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=cBvYA2ZtciSSP4BymFX/zrFacKuKzAMWo9vVUVhdRHg=; b=Kc/adbFYEo7eoC759FNa7SvvKmT60bWN93G9IC3SYG59jZ7OjJqQ0rvTwtxxCrLhMS TRoDUN/IwPJ7yGmwqhMTUGdLf/KBx8NmQCDTiWVa4vPZ/gm4XSUczQatMPj+SC8AUbze dNS774De3CNfSlJKcCTGzuWXnpqURpZAiqMA1RxZpFLf/8EXFP6K5DaEbOZpq9NGD1ho U2Y+EWS/D8y/JUNn0+M905wpBrJPkEDGaG+yie3SECrtv84F5PQMT6hOjYgMdWWdCwMj D/iioJkhLoDOb6+FlAHdMKxL1sJWgoHqRFBgQT/s0m6ymbM74f0LwDKupVD6Z2/7V7+5 5LXg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YxYHhm4wRCR4hhqgtuUZFnObcQkw2drcGedl+yTtz8kkIlIVAKn /RSoBEvjNek8LclB6+mbLHw= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IEqlTB6xMUxC2uUzyE65eT9G6Bzyn95oHRdOyu2UltAtccDUj8YlgFVkih9ZpIZ+RtuAB5iFA== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6102:3a76:b0:454:6dc6:cd5e with SMTP id bf22-20020a0561023a7600b004546dc6cd5emr15136006vsb.15.1696893125521; Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.67.48.245] ([192.19.223.252]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id s27-20020a05620a031b00b00767d572d651sm3874915qkm.87.2023.10.09.16.12.02 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:12:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 16:12:01 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fec: replace deprecated strncpy with ethtool_sprintf Content-Language: en-US To: Justin Stitt , Wei Fang , Shenwei Wang , Clark Wang , NXP Linux Team , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Jesper Dangaard Brouer , John Fastabend Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org References: <20231009-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-freescale-fec_main-c-v1-1-4166833f1431@google.com> From: Florian Fainelli In-Reply-To: <20231009-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-freescale-fec_main-c-v1-1-4166833f1431@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/9/23 16:05, Justin Stitt wrote: > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings > [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string > interfaces. > > ethtool_sprintf() is designed specifically for get_strings() usage. > Let's replace strncpy in favor of this more robust and easier to > understand interface. > > Also, while we're here, let's change memcpy() over to ethtool_sprintf() > for consistency. > > 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: Florian Fainelli -- Florian