Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipconfig: replace strncpy with strscpy

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:17:27 +0100

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 05:19:27PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:35:36 +0100 Simon Horman wrote:
> > > @@ -1690,7 +1690,7 @@ static int __init ic_proto_name(char *name)
> > >  			*v = 0;
> > >  			if (kstrtou8(client_id, 0, dhcp_client_identifier))
> > >  				pr_debug("DHCP: Invalid client identifier type\n");
> > > -			strncpy(dhcp_client_identifier + 1, v + 1, 251);
> > > +			strscpy(dhcp_client_identifier + 1, v + 1, 251);  
> > 
> > As an aside, I'm curious to know why the length is 251
> > rather than 252 (sizeof(dhcp_client_identifier) -1).
> > But that isn't strictly related to this patch.
> 
> Isn't this because strncpy() doesn't nul-terminate, and since this is a
> static variable if we use len - 1 we guarantee that there will be a null
> byte at the end? If we switch to strscpy we'll make the max string len
> 1 char shorter.

Yes, that makes sense to me.
And so I think the patch should also increase 251 to 252.