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    PNP: replace deprecated strncpy() with memcpy() · 50cbdaf1
    Justin Stitt authored
    strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
    [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous
    interfaces.
    
    After having precisely calculated the lengths and ensuring we don't
    overflow the buffer, this really decays to just a memcpy. Let's not use
    a C string api as it makes the intention of the code confusing.
    
    It'd be nice to use strscpy() in this case (as we clearly want
    NUL-termination) because it'd clean up the code a bit. However, I don't
    quite know enough about what is going on here to justify a drop-in
    replacement -- too much bit magic and why (PNP_NAME_LEN - 2)? I'm afraid
    using strscpy() may result in copying too many or too few bytes into our
    dev->name buffer resulting in different behavior. At least using
    memcpy() we can ensure the behavior is exactly the same.
    
    Side note:
    NUL-padding is not required because insert_device() calls
    pnpbios_parse_data_stream() with a zero-allocated `dev`:
    299 |  static int __init insert_device(struct pnp_bios_node *node) {
    ...
    312 |  dev = pnp_alloc_dev(&pnpbios_protocol, node->handle, id);
    ...
    316 |  pnpbios_parse_data_stream(dev, node);
    
    then pnpbios_parse_data_stream() calls pnpbios_parse_compatible_ids().
    
    Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
    Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90Signed-off-by: default avatarJustin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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