net: smc911x: ensure mdiodev->name is NULL terminated after MDIO_NAME_LEN truncation
strncpy() simply bails out when copying a source string whose size
exceeds the destination string size, potentially leaving the destination
string unterminated.
One possible way to address is to pass MDIO_NAME_LEN - 1 and a
previously zero-initialized destination string, but this is more
difficult to maintain.
The chosen alternative is to use strlcpy(), which properly limits the
copy len in the (srclen >= size) case to "size - 1", and which is also
more efficient than the strncpy() byte-by-byte implementation by using
memcpy. The destination string returned by strlcpy() is always NULL
terminated.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev@gmail.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/smc911x.c b/drivers/net/smc911x.c
index 8f42026..5d9a73f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/smc911x.c
+++ b/drivers/net/smc911x.c
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@
if (!mdiodev)
return -ENOMEM;
- strncpy(mdiodev->name, priv->dev.name, MDIO_NAME_LEN);
+ strlcpy(mdiodev->name, priv->dev.name, MDIO_NAME_LEN);
mdiodev->read = smc911x_miiphy_read;
mdiodev->write = smc911x_miiphy_write;