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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-06-20 00:56:45 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-06-20 00:56:45 +0300
commit1a3746ccbb0a97bed3c06ccde6b880013b1dddc1 (patch)
treeca6f73c603b70a638e7f3e0dd93c8158812676d1 /include/linux
parenta975094bf98ca97be9146f9d3b5681a6f9cf5ce3 (diff)
parent079a028d6327e68cfa5d38b36123637b321c19a7 (diff)
downloadlinux-1a3746ccbb0a97bed3c06ccde6b880013b1dddc1.tar.xz
Merge tag 'strncpy-removal-v7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull strncpy removal from Kees Cook: - Remove the per-arch strncpy implementations in alpha, m68k, powerpc, x86, and xtensa - Remove strncpy API Over the last 6 years working on strncpy removal there were 362 commits by 70 contributors. Folks with more than 1 commit were: 211 Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> 22 Xu Panda <xu.panda@zte.com.cn> 21 Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> 17 Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> 12 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> 4 Pranav Tyagi <pranav.tyagi03@gmail.com> 4 Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org> 2 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> 2 Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> 2 Marcelo Moreira <marcelomoreira1905@gmail.com> 2 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> 2 Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> 2 Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> 2 Daniel Thompson <danielt@kernel.org> 2 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> * tag 'strncpy-removal-v7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: string: Remove strncpy() from the kernel xtensa: Remove arch-specific strncpy() implementation x86: Remove arch-specific strncpy() implementation powerpc: Remove arch-specific strncpy() implementation m68k: Remove arch-specific strncpy() implementation alpha: Remove arch-specific strncpy() implementation
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fortify-string.h49
-rw-r--r--include/linux/string.h3
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 52 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fortify-string.h b/include/linux/fortify-string.h
index 171982e53c9a..cf841dc71fef 100644
--- a/include/linux/fortify-string.h
+++ b/include/linux/fortify-string.h
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
#define FORTIFY_WRITE 1
#define EACH_FORTIFY_FUNC(macro) \
- macro(strncpy), \
macro(strnlen), \
macro(strlen), \
macro(strscpy), \
@@ -95,8 +94,6 @@ extern char *__underlying_strcat(char *p, const char *q) __RENAME(strcat);
extern char *__underlying_strcpy(char *p, const char *q) __RENAME(strcpy);
extern __kernel_size_t __underlying_strlen(const char *p) __RENAME(strlen);
extern char *__underlying_strncat(char *p, const char *q, __kernel_size_t count) __RENAME(strncat);
-extern char *__underlying_strncpy(char *p, const char *q, __kernel_size_t size) __RENAME(strncpy);
-
#else
#if defined(__SANITIZE_MEMORY__)
@@ -120,7 +117,6 @@ extern char *__underlying_strncpy(char *p, const char *q, __kernel_size_t size)
#define __underlying_strcpy __builtin_strcpy
#define __underlying_strlen __builtin_strlen
#define __underlying_strncat __builtin_strncat
-#define __underlying_strncpy __builtin_strncpy
#endif
@@ -159,50 +155,6 @@ extern char *__underlying_strncpy(char *p, const char *q, __kernel_size_t size)
(bounds) < (length) \
)
-/**
- * strncpy - Copy a string to memory with non-guaranteed NUL padding
- *
- * @p: pointer to destination of copy
- * @q: pointer to NUL-terminated source string to copy
- * @size: bytes to write at @p
- *
- * If strlen(@q) >= @size, the copy of @q will stop after @size bytes,
- * and @p will NOT be NUL-terminated
- *
- * If strlen(@q) < @size, following the copy of @q, trailing NUL bytes
- * will be written to @p until @size total bytes have been written.
- *
- * Do not use this function. While FORTIFY_SOURCE tries to avoid
- * over-reads of @q, it cannot defend against writing unterminated
- * results to @p. Using strncpy() remains ambiguous and fragile.
- * Instead, please choose an alternative, so that the expectation
- * of @p's contents is unambiguous:
- *
- * +--------------------+--------------------+------------+
- * | **p** needs to be: | padded to **size** | not padded |
- * +====================+====================+============+
- * | NUL-terminated | strscpy_pad() | strscpy() |
- * +--------------------+--------------------+------------+
- * | not NUL-terminated | strtomem_pad() | strtomem() |
- * +--------------------+--------------------+------------+
- *
- * Note strscpy*()'s differing return values for detecting truncation,
- * and strtomem*()'s expectation that the destination is marked with
- * __nonstring when it is a character array.
- *
- */
-__FORTIFY_INLINE __diagnose_as(__builtin_strncpy, 1, 2, 3)
-char *strncpy(char * const POS p, const char *q, __kernel_size_t size)
-{
- const size_t p_size = __member_size(p);
-
- if (__compiletime_lessthan(p_size, size))
- __write_overflow();
- if (p_size < size)
- fortify_panic(FORTIFY_FUNC_strncpy, FORTIFY_WRITE, p_size, size, p);
- return __underlying_strncpy(p, q, size);
-}
-
extern __kernel_size_t __real_strnlen(const char *, __kernel_size_t) __RENAME(strnlen);
/**
* strnlen - Return bounded count of characters in a NUL-terminated string
@@ -809,7 +761,6 @@ char *strcpy(char * const POS p, const char * const POS q)
#undef __underlying_strcpy
#undef __underlying_strlen
#undef __underlying_strncat
-#undef __underlying_strncpy
#undef POS
#undef POS0
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index b850bd91b3d8..5702daca4326 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -67,9 +67,6 @@ void *vmemdup_array_user(const void __user *src, size_t n, size_t size)
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCPY
extern char * strcpy(char *,const char *);
#endif
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCPY
-extern char * strncpy(char *,const char *, __kernel_size_t);
-#endif
ssize_t sized_strscpy(char *, const char *, size_t);
/*