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um: vector: refactor deprecated strncpy
authorJustin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Mon, 7 Aug 2023 18:22:30 +0000 (18:22 +0000)
committerRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 20:42:50 +0000 (22:42 +0200)
commite30955d029a8834c93c9bd0226fa6c1dfc59c812
treee49544643e85a915960d9c4b1f4262e5b2fea12b
parent8f85f93bfd2d490251143577bd43b01b40acb8d7
um: vector: 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`!

In this case, we are able to drop the now superfluous `... - 1`
instances because `strscpy` will automatically truncate the last byte by
setting it to a NUL byte if the source size exceeds the destination size
or if the source string is not NUL-terminated.

I've also opted to remove the seemingly useless char* casts. I'm not
sure why they're present at all since (after expanding the `ifr_name`
macro) `ifr.ifr_ifrn.ifrn_name` is a char* already.

All in all, `strscpy` is a more robust and less ambiguous interface
while also letting us remove some `... -1`'s which cleans things up a
bit.

[1]: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
[2]: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Acked-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
arch/um/drivers/vector_user.c