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clean up scary strncpy(dst, src, strlen(src)) uses
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Fix various weird constructions of strncpy(dst, src, strlen(src)).

Length limits should be about the space available in the destination,
not repurposed as a method to either always include or always exclude a
trailing NULL byte.  Either the NULL should always be copied (using
strlcpy), or it should not be copied (using something like memcpy).
Readable code should not depend on the weird behavior of strncpy when it
hits the length limit.  Better to avoid the anti-pattern entirely.

[[email protected]: revert getdelays.c part due to missing bsd/string.h]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>	[staging]
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>	[acpi]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Ursula Braun <[email protected]>
Cc: Frank Blaschka <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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kees authored and torvalds committed Jul 3, 2013
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
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Expand Up @@ -677,10 +677,9 @@ void acpi_irq_stats_init(void)
else
sprintf(buffer, "bug%02X", i);

name = kzalloc(strlen(buffer) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
name = kstrdup(buffer, GFP_KERNEL);
if (name == NULL)
goto fail;
strncpy(name, buffer, strlen(buffer) + 1);

sysfs_attr_init(&counter_attrs[i].attr);
counter_attrs[i].attr.name = name;
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6 changes: 2 additions & 4 deletions drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_sys.c
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Expand Up @@ -315,10 +315,8 @@ static ssize_t qeth_l3_dev_hsuid_store(struct device *dev,
if (qeth_configure_cq(card, QETH_CQ_ENABLED))
return -EPERM;

for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)
card->options.hsuid[i] = ' ';
card->options.hsuid[8] = '\0';
strncpy(card->options.hsuid, tmp, strlen(tmp));
snprintf(card->options.hsuid, sizeof(card->options.hsuid),
"%-8s", tmp);
ASCEBC(card->options.hsuid, 8);
if (card->dev)
memcpy(card->dev->perm_addr, card->options.hsuid, 9);
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions drivers/staging/tidspbridge/rmgr/drv_interface.c
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Expand Up @@ -421,12 +421,11 @@ static int omap3_bridge_startup(struct platform_device *pdev)
drv_datap->tc_wordswapon = tc_wordswapon;

if (base_img) {
drv_datap->base_img = kmalloc(strlen(base_img) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
drv_datap->base_img = kstrdup(base_img, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!drv_datap->base_img) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto err2;
}
strncpy(drv_datap->base_img, base_img, strlen(base_img) + 1);
}

dev_set_drvdata(bridge, drv_datap);
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11 changes: 6 additions & 5 deletions fs/hppfs/hppfs.c
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Expand Up @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static char *dentry_name(struct dentry *dentry, int extra)
struct dentry *parent;
char *root, *name;
const char *seg_name;
int len, seg_len;
int len, seg_len, root_len;

len = 0;
parent = dentry;
Expand All @@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ static char *dentry_name(struct dentry *dentry, int extra)
}

root = "proc";
len += strlen(root);
root_len = strlen(root);
len += root_len;
name = kmalloc(len + extra + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (name == NULL)
return NULL;
Expand All @@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ static char *dentry_name(struct dentry *dentry, int extra)
while (parent->d_parent != parent) {
if (is_pid(parent)) {
seg_name = "pid";
seg_len = strlen("pid");
seg_len = strlen(seg_name);
}
else {
seg_name = parent->d_name.name;
Expand All @@ -100,10 +101,10 @@ static char *dentry_name(struct dentry *dentry, int extra)

len -= seg_len + 1;
name[len] = '/';
strncpy(&name[len + 1], seg_name, seg_len);
memcpy(&name[len + 1], seg_name, seg_len);
parent = parent->d_parent;
}
strncpy(name, root, strlen(root));
memcpy(name, root, root_len);
return name;
}

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