linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] printk: cleanup deprecated uses of strncpy/strcpy

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Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 17:14:11 +0200
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: cleanup deprecated uses of strncpy/strcpy

On Thu 2024-05-02 07:06:21, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Le 02/05/2024 à 01:18, Justin Stitt a écrit :
> > On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 2:39 PM Christophe JAILLET
> > <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Nit: The { } around each branch can now also be removed.
> > 
> > There was one line before and there's one line now.
> 
> In the block after the "else", yes, but now the block after the "if" is only
> 1 line. (it was 2 before).
> 
> So, {} should now be omitted on both branches.
> 
> -    if (str[0] >= '0' && str[0] <= '9') {
> -        strcpy(buf, "ttyS");
> -        strncpy(buf + 4, str, sizeof(buf) - 5);
> +    if (isdigit(str[0])) {
> +        scnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "ttyS%s", str);
>       } else {
> -        strncpy(buf, str, sizeof(buf) - 1);
> +        strscpy(buf, str);
>       }
> 
> This is a really minor nitpick. Not sure you need to repost if there is no
> other comment.

I could remove the brackets when pushing the patch. But feel free to
send v2.

I am going to push it the following week if nobody complains.

Best Regards,
Petr