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`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.
We know `fw_type` must be NUL-terminated based on use here:
| static bool fw_type_is_auto(void)
| {
| return strncmp(fw_type, LIO_FW_NAME_TYPE_AUTO,
| sizeof(LIO_FW_NAME_TYPE_AUTO)) == 0;
| }
...and here
| module_param_string(fw_type, fw_type, sizeof(fw_type), 0444);
Let's opt to NUL-pad the destination buffer as well so that we maintain
the same exact behavior that `strncpy` provided here.
A suitable replacement is `strscpy_pad` due to the fact that it
guarantees both NUL-termination and NUL-padding on the destination
buffer.
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-cavium-liquidio-lio_main-c-v1-1-663e3f1d8f99@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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