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`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]. A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is _not_ the case for `strncpy`! In this case, we are able to drop the now superfluous `... - 1` instances because `strscpy` will automatically truncate the last byte by setting it to a NUL byte if the source size exceeds the destination size or if the source string is not NUL-terminated. I've also opted to remove the seemingly useless char* casts. I'm not sure why they're present at all since (after expanding the `ifr_name` macro) `ifr.ifr_ifrn.ifrn_name` is a char* already. All in all, `strscpy` is a more robust and less ambiguous interface while also letting us remove some `... -1`'s which cleans things up a bit. [1]: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [2]: 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> Acked-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> |
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