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Commit be8dffa0 authored by Justin Stitt's avatar Justin Stitt Committed by Kees Cook
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um: refactor deprecated strncpy to memcpy

Use `memcpy` since `console_buf` is not expected to be NUL-terminated
and it more accurately describes what is happening with the buffers
`console_buf` and `string` as per Kees' analysis [1].

Also mark char buffer as `__nonstring` as per Kees' suggestion [2].

This change now makes it more clear what this code does and that
`console_buf` is not expected to be NUL-terminated.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202308081708.D5ADC80F@keescook/ [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [2]
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings


Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJustin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230809-arch-um-v3-1-f63e1122d77e@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
parent 30bed99e
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