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

[Ramon Fried]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 2:22 PM Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
Reviewed-by: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev at gmail.com>