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Commit 1e6f01f7 authored by Justin Stitt's avatar Justin Stitt Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/platform/uv: Refactor code using deprecated strcpy()/strncpy() interfaces to use strscpy()



Both `strncpy` and `strcpy` are deprecated for use on NUL-terminated
destination strings [1].

A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
_not_ the case for `strncpy` or `strcpy`!

In this case, we can drop both the forced NUL-termination and the `... -1` from:
|       strncpy(arg, val, ACTION_LEN - 1);
as `strscpy` implicitly has this behavior.

Also include slight refactor to code removing possible new-line chars as
per Yang Yang's work at [3]. This reduces code size and complexity by
using more robust and better understood interfaces.

Co-developed-by: default avatarYang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJustin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com>
Link: 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://lore.kernel.org/all/202212091545310085328@zte.com.cn/ [3]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230824-strncpy-arch-x86-platform-uv-uv_nmi-v2-1-e16d9a3ec570@google.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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