ipmi: refactor deprecated strncpy
`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]. In this case, strncpy is being used specifically for its NUL-padding behavior (and has been commented as such). Moreover, the destination string is not required to be NUL-terminated [2]. We can use a more robust and less ambiguous interface in `memcpy_and_pad` which makes the code more readable and even eliminates the need for that comment. Let's also use `strnlen` instead of `strlen()` with an upper-bounds check as this is intrinsically a part of `strnlen`. Also included in this patch is a simple 1:1 change of `strncpy` to `strscpy` for ipmi_ssif.c. If NUL-padding is wanted here as well then we should opt again for `strscpy_pad`. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZQEADYBl0uZ1nX60@mail.minyard.net/ [2] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Message-Id: <20230913-strncpy-drivers-char-ipmi-ipmi-v2-1-e3bc0f6e599f@google.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
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