Re: [PATCH linux-next] tracing: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()

From: Google
Date: Mon Jan 09 2023 - 19:04:04 EST


On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 19:39:21 +0800 (CST)
<yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The implementation of strscpy() is more robust and safer.
> That's now the recommended way to copy NUL-terminated strings.

This looks good to me.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you,

>
> Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
> index 67592eed0be8..cd636edd045e 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
> @@ -195,8 +195,7 @@ static int synth_field_string_size(char *type)
> if (len == 0)
> return 0; /* variable-length string */
>
> - strncpy(buf, start, len);
> - buf[len] = '\0';
> + strscpy(buf, start, len + 1);
>
> err = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &size);
> if (err)
> --
> 2.15.2


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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>