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Commit f700b719 authored by Justin Stitt's avatar Justin Stitt Committed by Kees Cook
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fs: ecryptfs: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces. A good alternative is strscpy() as it guarantees
NUL-termination on the destination buffer.

In crypto.c:
We expect cipher_name to be NUL-terminated based on its use with
the C-string format specifier %s and with other string apis like
strlen():
|	printk(KERN_ERR "Error attempting to initialize key TFM "
|		"cipher with name = [%s]; rc = [%d]\n",
|		tmp_tfm->cipher_name, rc);
and
|	int cipher_name_len = strlen(cipher_name);

In main.c:
We can remove the manual NUL-byte assignments as well as the pointers to
destinations (which I assume only existed to trim down on line length?)
in favor of directly using the destination buffer which allows the
compiler to get size information -- enabling the usage of the new
2-argument strscpy().

Note that this patch relies on the _new_ 2-argument versions of
strscpy() and strscpy_pad() introduced in Commit e6584c39

 ("string:
Allow 2-argument strscpy()").

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc:  <linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJustin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240321-strncpy-fs-ecryptfs-crypto-c-v1-1-d78b74c214ac@google.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
parent 7dcbf17e
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