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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2023-05-17 13:13:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2023-05-30 16:42:01 -0700 |
| commit | d0f90841cba1931ee8284297deda53f098de5c82 (patch) | |
| tree | 5a764eb1a96d67a47b7ca316f317079ff2e1edb3 | |
| parent | d0c2d66fcc8db748edfe60e3b443eaff931f50e9 (diff) | |
checkpatch: Check for strcpy and strncpy too
Warn about strcpy(), strncpy(), and strlcpy(). Suggest strscpy() and
include pointers to the open KSPP issues for each, which has further
details and replacement procedures.
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230517201349.never.582-kees@kernel.org
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index b30114d637c4..30b0b4fdb3bf 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6997,10 +6997,22 @@ sub process { # } # } +# strcpy uses that should likely be strscpy + if ($line =~ /\bstrcpy\s*\(/) { + WARN("STRCPY", + "Prefer strscpy over strcpy - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88\n" . $herecurr); + } + # strlcpy uses that should likely be strscpy if ($line =~ /\bstrlcpy\s*\(/) { WARN("STRLCPY", - "Prefer strscpy over strlcpy - see: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw\@mail.gmail.com/\n" . $herecurr); + "Prefer strscpy over strlcpy - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89\n" . $herecurr); + } + +# strncpy uses that should likely be strscpy or strscpy_pad + if ($line =~ /\bstrncpy\s*\(/) { + WARN("STRNCPY", + "Prefer strscpy, strscpy_pad, or __nonstring over strncpy - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90\n" . $herecurr); } # typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t |