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Commit d4011f68 authored by Justin Stitt's avatar Justin Stitt Committed by Kees Cook
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HID: uhid: 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 suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without
unnecessarily NUL-padding.

Furthermore, let's make sure `hid->xyz` and `ev->u.create2.xyz` are the
same size at compile time to prevent silent truncation.

With these changes, it is abundantly clear what the intent and behavior
of the code is -- We are getting a string to string copy with
NUL-termination and no truncation.

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
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJustin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231003-strncpy-drivers-hid-uhid-c-v2-1-6a501402581e@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
parent 40b2519d
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