[PATCH] scsi: ibmvscsi: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Tue May 23 05:39:40 AEST 2023


On Wed, 17 May 2023 14:34:09 +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
> overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> strlcpy() here with strscpy().
> No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
> 
> [...]

Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: ibmvscsi: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/015f6618194e

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Kees Cook



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