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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. String copy operations involving manual pointer offset and length calculations followed by explicit NUL-byte assignments are best changed to either strscpy or memcpy. strscpy is not a drop-in replacement as @len would need a one subtracted from it to avoid truncating the source string. To not sabotage readability of the current code, use memcpy (retaining the manual NUL assignment) as this unambiguously describes the desired behavior. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [2] Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241014-strncpy-kernel-trace-trace_events_filter-c-v2-1-d821e81e371e@google.com Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
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.