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Commit e6584c39 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook
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string: Allow 2-argument strscpy()



Using sizeof(dst) for the "size" argument in strscpy() is the
overwhelmingly common case. Instead of requiring this everywhere, allow a
2-argument version to be used that will use the sizeof() internally. There
are other functions in the kernel with optional arguments[1], so this
isn't unprecedented, and improves readability. Update and relocate the
kern-doc for strscpy() too, and drop __HAVE_ARCH_STRSCPY as it is unused.

Adjust ARCH=um build to notice the changed export name, as it doesn't
do full header includes for the string helpers.

This could additionally let us save a few hundred lines of code:
 1177 files changed, 2455 insertions(+), 3026 deletions(-)
with a treewide cleanup using Coccinelle:

@needless_arg@
expression DST, SRC;
@@

        strscpy(DST, SRC
-, sizeof(DST)
        )

Link: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.7/source/include/linux/pci.h#L1517 [1]
Reviewed-by: default avatarJustin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
parent f478898e
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