[PATCH 23/25] net: dsa: ensure port names are NULL-terminated after DSA_PORT_NAME_LENGTH truncation

Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean at nxp.com
Mon Sep 27 13:22:03 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 DSA_PORT_NAME_LENGTH - 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>
---
 net/dsa-uclass.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/dsa-uclass.c b/net/dsa-uclass.c
index 9b8ae1e82b92..8db0de686e2a 100644
--- a/net/dsa-uclass.c
+++ b/net/dsa-uclass.c
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ static int dsa_port_of_to_pdata(struct udevice *pdev)
 
 	label = ofnode_read_string(dev_ofnode(pdev), "label");
 	if (label)
-		strncpy(port_pdata->name, label, DSA_PORT_NAME_LENGTH);
+		strlcpy(port_pdata->name, label, DSA_PORT_NAME_LENGTH);
 
 	eth_pdata = dev_get_plat(pdev);
 	eth_pdata->priv_pdata = port_pdata;
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ static int dsa_post_bind(struct udevice *dev)
 			struct dsa_port_pdata *port_pdata;
 
 			port_pdata = dev_get_parent_plat(pdev);
-			strncpy(port_pdata->name, name, DSA_PORT_NAME_LENGTH);
+			strlcpy(port_pdata->name, name, DSA_PORT_NAME_LENGTH);
 			pdev->name = port_pdata->name;
 		}
 
-- 
2.25.1



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