[PATCH 08/25] net: enetc: ensure imdio.name is NULL terminated after MDIO_NAME_LEN truncation

Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean at nxp.com
Mon Sep 27 13:21:48 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/fsl_enetc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/fsl_enetc.c b/drivers/net/fsl_enetc.c
index 566cdc7e546a..b7e2c1f0880c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fsl_enetc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fsl_enetc.c
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ static void enetc_start_pcs(struct udevice *dev)
 		priv->imdio.read = enetc_mdio_read;
 		priv->imdio.write = enetc_mdio_write;
 		priv->imdio.priv = priv->port_regs + ENETC_PM_IMDIO_BASE;
-		strncpy(priv->imdio.name, dev->name, MDIO_NAME_LEN);
+		strlcpy(priv->imdio.name, dev->name, MDIO_NAME_LEN);
 		if (!miiphy_get_dev_by_name(priv->imdio.name))
 			mdio_register(&priv->imdio);
 	}
-- 
2.25.1



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