Justin Stitt
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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. Our goal here is to get @namebuf populated with @name's contents but surrounded with quotes. There is some careful handling done to ensure we properly truncate @name so that we have room for a literal quote as well as a NUL-term. All this careful handling can be done with scnprintf using the dynamic string width specifier %.*s which allows us to pass in the max size for a source string. Doing this, we can put literal quotes in our format specifier and ensure @name is truncated to fit inbetween these quotes (-3 is from 2 quotes + 1 NUL-byte). All in all, we get to remove a deprecated use of strncpy and clean up this code nicely! 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 Cc: <linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240328-strncpy-fs-reiserfs-item_ops-c-v1-1-2dab6d22a996@google.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.