[PATCH] docs: networking: Replace strncpy() with strscpy()
From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2021-06-02 20:29:22
Replace example code's use of strncpy() with strscpy() functions. Using strncpy() is considered deprecated: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted> --- Documentation/input/joydev/joystick-api.rst | 2 +- Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst | 2 +- Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/input/joydev/joystick-api.rst b/Documentation/input/joydev/joystick-api.rst
index af5934c10c1c..5db6dc6fe1c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/joydev/joystick-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/input/joydev/joystick-api.rst@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ possible overrun should the name be too long:: char name[128]; if (ioctl(fd, JSIOCGNAME(sizeof(name)), name) < 0) - strncpy(name, "Unknown", sizeof(name)); + strscpy(name, "Unknown", sizeof(name)); printf("Name: %s\n", name);
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst
index 500ef60b1b82..c5da1a5d93de 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ As capture, each frame contains two parts:: struct ifreq s_ifr; ... - strncpy (s_ifr.ifr_name, "eth0", sizeof(s_ifr.ifr_name)); + strscpy_pad (s_ifr.ifr_name, "eth0", sizeof(s_ifr.ifr_name)); /* get interface index of eth0 */ ioctl(this->socket, SIOCGIFINDEX, &s_ifr);
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst b/Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst
index a59d1dd6fdcc..4d7087f727be 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Note that the character pointer becomes overwritten with the real device name */ ifr.ifr_flags = IFF_TUN; if( *dev ) - strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, dev, IFNAMSIZ); + strscpy_pad(ifr.ifr_name, dev, IFNAMSIZ); if( (err = ioctl(fd, TUNSETIFF, (void *) &ifr)) < 0 ){ close(fd);
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