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net/mlx4_core: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

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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 expect `dst` to be NUL-terminated based on its use with format
strings:
|       mlx4_dbg(dev, "Reporting Driver Version to FW: %s\n", dst);

Moreover, NUL-padding is not required.

Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to
the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer
without unnecessarily NUL-padding.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231011-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-mellanox-mlx4-fw-c-v1-1-4d7b5d34c933@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Justin Stitt 2023-10-11 21:04:37 +00:00 committed by Jakub Kicinski
parent d273e99b56
commit 88fca39b66
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drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c
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@ -1967,7 +1967,7 @@ int mlx4_INIT_HCA(struct mlx4_dev *dev, struct mlx4_init_hca_param *param)
if (dev->caps.flags2 & MLX4_DEV_CAP_FLAG2_DRIVER_VERSION_TO_FW) {
u8 *dst = (u8 *)(inbox + INIT_HCA_DRIVER_VERSION_OFFSET / 4);
strncpy(dst, DRV_NAME_FOR_FW, INIT_HCA_DRIVER_VERSION_SZ - 1);
strscpy(dst, DRV_NAME_FOR_FW, INIT_HCA_DRIVER_VERSION_SZ);
mlx4_dbg(dev, "Reporting Driver Version to FW: %s\n", dst);
}