# Re: \[PATCH V5\] Fix buffer size warning for strcpy

- From: Jes Sorensen \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-10-08 15:46:35 
- List: linux-raid
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-raid/2021/10/6640726
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-raid/2021/08/6640616/t.md

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On 8/25/21 11:30 AM, Nigel Croxon wrote:
> To meet requirements of Common Criteria certification vulnerability
> assessment. Static code analysis has been run and found the following
> error:
> buffer_size_warning: Calling "strncpy" with a maximum size
> argument of 16 bytes on destination array "ve->name" of
> size 16 bytes might leave the destination string unterminated.
> https://people.redhat.com/ncroxon/mdadm-4.2-rc2-scan-results.html
> 
> The change is to make the destination size to fit the allocated size.
> 
> V5:
> Simplify the the strnlen call.
> 
> V4:
> Code cleanup of the interim "if" statement.
> 
> V3: Doc change only:
> The code change from filling ve->name with spaces to filling it with
> null-terminated is to comform to the SNIA - Common RAID Disk Data
> Format Specification. The format for VD_Name (ve->name) specifies
> the field to be either ASCII or UNICODE. Bit 2 of the VD_Type field
> MUST be used to determine the Unicode or ASCII format of this field.
> If this field is not used, all bytes MUST be set to zero.
> 
> V2: Change from zero-terminated to zero-padded on memset and
> change from using strncpy to memcpy, feedback from Neil Brown.
> 
> Tested-by: Mariusz Tkaczyk <redacted>
> Signed-off-by: Nigel Croxon <redacted>
> ---
>  super-ddf.c | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Applied!

Thanks
Jes

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