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net: atheros: 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 netdev->name to be NUL-terminated based on its use with format
strings and dev_info():
|     dev_info(&adapter->pdev->dev,
|             "%s link is up %d Mbps %s\n",
|             netdev->name, adapter->link_speed,
|             adapter->link_duplex == FULL_DUPLEX ?
|             "full duplex" : "half duplex");

Furthermore, NUL-padding is not required as netdev is already
zero-initialized through alloc_etherdev().

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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-atheros-atlx-atl2-c-v1-1-493f113ebfc7@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Justin Stitt 2023-10-05 01:29:45 +00:00 committed by Jakub Kicinski
parent 9c9e3ab20f
commit 9814ec70fc
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drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c
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@ -1377,7 +1377,7 @@ static int atl2_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
netdev->watchdog_timeo = 5 * HZ;
netdev->min_mtu = 40;
netdev->max_mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN + VLAN_HLEN;
strncpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name) - 1);
strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name));
netdev->mem_start = mmio_start;
netdev->mem_end = mmio_start + mmio_len;