[PATCH 04/25] net: at91_emac: ensure mdiodev->name is NULL terminated after MDIO_NAME_LEN truncation

Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean at nxp.com
Mon Sep 27 13:21:44 CEST 2021


strncpy() simply bails out when copying a source string whose size
exceeds the destination string size, potentially leaving the destination
string unterminated.

One possible way to address is to pass MDIO_NAME_LEN - 1 and a
previously zero-initialized destination string, but this is more
difficult to maintain.

The chosen alternative is to use strlcpy(), which properly limits the
copy len in the (srclen >= size) case to "size - 1", and which is also
more efficient than the strncpy() byte-by-byte implementation by using
memcpy. The destination string returned by strlcpy() is always NULL
terminated.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com>
---
 drivers/net/at91_emac.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/at91_emac.c b/drivers/net/at91_emac.c
index e40b94ad892d..b4581d8c9320 100644
--- a/drivers/net/at91_emac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/at91_emac.c
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ int at91emac_register(struct bd_info *bis, unsigned long iobase)
 	struct mii_dev *mdiodev = mdio_alloc();
 	if (!mdiodev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	strncpy(mdiodev->name, dev->name, MDIO_NAME_LEN);
+	strlcpy(mdiodev->name, dev->name, MDIO_NAME_LEN);
 	mdiodev->read = at91emac_mii_read;
 	mdiodev->write = at91emac_mii_write;
 
-- 
2.25.1



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