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diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst index ff71d802b53d..9d83b8db8874 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst @@ -106,23 +106,29 @@ NUL or newline terminated. strcpy() -------- -strcpy() performs no bounds checking on the destination -buffer. This could result in linear overflows beyond the -end of the buffer, leading to all kinds of misbehaviors. While -`CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y` and various compiler flags help reduce the -risk of using this function, there is no good reason to add new uses of -this function. The safe replacement is strscpy(). +strcpy() performs no bounds checking on the destination buffer. This +could result in linear overflows beyond the end of the buffer, leading to +all kinds of misbehaviors. While `CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y` and various +compiler flags help reduce the risk of using this function, there is +no good reason to add new uses of this function. The safe replacement +is strscpy(), though care must be given to any cases where the return +value of strcpy() was used, since strscpy() does not return a pointer to +the destination, but rather a count of non-NUL bytes copied (or negative +errno when it truncates). strncpy() on NUL-terminated strings ----------------------------------- -Use of strncpy() does not guarantee that the destination buffer -will be NUL terminated. This can lead to various linear read overflows -and other misbehavior due to the missing termination. It also NUL-pads the -destination buffer if the source contents are shorter than the destination -buffer size, which may be a needless performance penalty for callers using -only NUL-terminated strings. The safe replacement is strscpy(). -(Users of strscpy() still needing NUL-padding should instead -use strscpy_pad().) +Use of strncpy() does not guarantee that the destination buffer will +be NUL terminated. This can lead to various linear read overflows and +other misbehavior due to the missing termination. It also NUL-pads +the destination buffer if the source contents are shorter than the +destination buffer size, which may be a needless performance penalty +for callers using only NUL-terminated strings. The safe replacement is +strscpy(), though care must be given to any cases where the return value +of strncpy() was used, since strscpy() does not return a pointer to the +destination, but rather a count of non-NUL bytes copied (or negative +errno when it truncates). Any cases still needing NUL-padding should +instead use strscpy_pad(). If a caller is using non-NUL-terminated strings, strncpy() can still be used, but destinations should be marked with the `__nonstring @@ -131,10 +137,12 @@ attribute to avoid future compiler warnings. strlcpy() --------- -strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first, possibly exceeding -the given limit of bytes to copy. This is inefficient and can lead to -linear read overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated. The -safe replacement is strscpy(). +strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first (since the return value +is meant to match that of strlen()). This read may exceed the destination +size limit. This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read overflows +if a source string is not NUL-terminated. The safe replacement is strscpy(), +though care must be given to any cases where the return value of strlcpy() +is used, since strscpy() will return negative errno values when it truncates. %p format specifier ------------------- |