dm cache metadata: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces. It seems `cmd->policy_name` is intended to be NUL-terminated based on a now changed line of code from Commit (c6b4fcba "dm: add cache target"): | if (strcmp(cmd->policy_name, policy_name)) { // ... However, now a length-bounded strncmp is used: | if (strncmp(cmd->policy_name, policy_name, sizeof(cmd->policy_name))) ... which means NUL-terminated may not strictly be required. However, I believe the intent of the code is clear and we should maintain NUL-termination of policy_names. Moreover, __begin_transaction_flags() zero-allocates `cmd` before calling read_superblock_fields(): | cmd = kzalloc(sizeof(*cmd), GFP_KERNEL); Also, `disk_super->policy_name` is zero-initialized | memset(disk_super->policy_name, 0, sizeof(disk_super->policy_name)); ... therefore any NUL-padding is redundant. Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without unnecessarily NUL-padding. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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