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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 12:03:54 +0300
From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...il.com>
To: Romain Perier <romain.perier@...il.com>, Kees Cook
 <keescook@...omium.org>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Valentina Manea <valentina.manea.m@...il.com>, Shuah Khan
 <shuah@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/20] usbip: usbip_host: Manual replacement of the
 deprecated strlcpy() with return values

Hello!

On 22.02.2021 18:12, Romain Perier wrote:

> The strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first, it is dangerous if
> the source buffer lenght is unbounded or possibility non NULL-terminated.

    Length. Possibly?

> It can lead to linear read overflows, crashes, etc...
> 
> As recommended in the deprecated interfaces [1], it should be replaced
> by strscpy.
> 
> This commit replaces all calls to strlcpy that handle the return values
> by the corresponding strscpy calls with new handling of the return
> values (as it is quite different between the two functions).
> 
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> 
> Signed-off-by: Romain Perier <romain.perier@...il.com>
[...]

MBR, Sergei

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