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| author | Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> | 2025-11-26 23:08:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2025-11-28 20:19:16 -0800 |
| commit | ff736a286116d462a4067ba258fa351bc0b4ed80 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ae2496b4a45d8046b3f728879a2114a231a7554 /net/ipv4 | |
| parent | 840a64710e6d26589d4bdcc99c765037a7c5c95f (diff) | |
net: ipconfig: Replace strncpy with strscpy in ic_proto_name
strncpy() is deprecated [1] for NUL-terminated destination buffers
because it does not guarantee NUL termination. Replace it with strscpy()
to ensure the destination buffer is always NUL-terminated and to avoid
any additional NUL padding.
Although the identifier buffer has 252 usable bytes, strncpy() copied
only up to 251 bytes to the zero-initialized buffer, relying on the last
byte to act as an implicit NUL terminator. Switching to strscpy() avoids
this implicit behavior and does not use magic numbers.
The source string is also NUL-terminated and satisfies the
__must_be_cstr() requirement of strscpy().
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251126220804.102160-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c index 22a7889876c1..019408d3ca2c 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c @@ -1690,7 +1690,8 @@ static int __init ic_proto_name(char *name) *v = 0; if (kstrtou8(client_id, 0, dhcp_client_identifier)) pr_debug("DHCP: Invalid client identifier type\n"); - strncpy(dhcp_client_identifier + 1, v + 1, 251); + strscpy(dhcp_client_identifier + 1, v + 1, + sizeof(dhcp_client_identifier) - 1); *v = ','; } return 1; |