From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EISA: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:52:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <169047317160.2400214.17169594909094600573.b4-ty@chromium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230706175804.2249018-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
On Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:58:04 +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
> overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> strlcpy() here with strscpy().
> No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] EISA: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/f2ccf8d13625
Best regards,
--
Kees Cook
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-27 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-06 17:58 Azeem Shaikh
2023-07-12 23:54 ` Kees Cook
2023-07-27 15:52 ` Kees Cook [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=169047317160.2400214.17169594909094600573.b4-ty@chromium.org \
--to=keescook@chromium.org \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=azeemshaikh38@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox