linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] tracing/uprobe: Replace strlcpy() with strscpy()

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Date: Fri,  1 Dec 2023 10:25:49 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/uprobe: Replace strlcpy() with strscpy()

On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:56:08 -0800, Kees Cook 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].
> Additionally, it returns the size of the source string, not the
> resulting size of the destination string. In an effort to remove strlcpy()
> completely[2], replace strlcpy() here with strscpy().
> 
> [...]

Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks!

[1/1] tracing/uprobe: Replace strlcpy() with strscpy()
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/8a3750ecf810

Take care,

-- 
Kees Cook