drm: property: Replace strncpy() with strscpy_pad()
strncpy() is widely regarded as unsafe due to the fact that it may leave the destination string without a nul-termination when the source string size is too large. When compiling the kernel with W=1, the gcc warns about this: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c: In function ‘drm_property_create’: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c:130:2: warning: ‘strncpy’ specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation] 130 | strncpy(property->name, name, DRM_PROP_NAME_LEN); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are three occurrences of strncpy() in drm_property.c. None of them are actually unsafe, as the very next line forces nul-termination of the destination buffer. The warning is thus a false positive, but adds noise to the kernel log. It can easily be silenced by using strscpy_pad() instead. Do so. One of the three occurrences, in drm_property_add_enum(), fills a char array that is later copied to userspace with copy_to_user() in drm_mode_getproperty_ioctl(). To avoid leaking kernel data, strscpy_pad() is required. Similarly, a second occurrence, in drm_mode_getproperty_ioctl(), copies the string to an ioctl data buffer that isn't previously zero'ed, to strscpy_pad() is also required. The last occurrence, in drm_property_create(), would be safe to replace with strscpy(), as the destination buffer is copied to userspace with strscpy_pad(). However, given that this isn't in a hot path, let's avoid future data leaks in case someone copies the whole char array blindly. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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