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Commit 571bfeb4 authored by Justin Stitt's avatar Justin Stitt Committed by Oded Gabbay
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accel/habanalabs: refactor deprecated strncpy

`strncpy` is 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`!

There is likely no bug happening in this case since HL_STR_MAX is
strictly larger than all source strings. Nonetheless, prefer a safer and
more robust interface.

It should also be noted that `strscpy` will not pad like `strncpy`. If
this NUL-padding behavior is _required_ we should use `strscpy_pad`
instead of `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 avatarStanislaw Gruszka <stanislaw.gruszka@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarOded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarOded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org>
parent 90f3de61
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