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authorKees Cook <kees@kernel.org>2026-03-23 01:27:25 +0000
committerKees Cook <kees@kernel.org>2026-06-18 16:39:31 -0700
commit079a028d6327e68cfa5d38b36123637b321c19a7 (patch)
treed6bed2ef9b0f5969d1105f010d8b4a8804a13f61 /tools
parent58c4ce8cd6cd1fbf1bca2e1d1f42f9e2899fa934 (diff)
string: Remove strncpy() from the kernel
strncpy() has been a persistent source of bugs due to its ambiguous intended usage and frequently counter-intuitive semantics: it may not NUL-terminate the destination, and it unconditionally zero-pads to the full length, which isn't always needed. All former callers have been migrated[1] to: - strscpy() for NUL-terminated destinations - strscpy_pad() for NUL-terminated destinations needing zero-padding - strtomem_pad() for non-NUL-terminated fixed-width fields - memcpy_and_pad() for bounded copies with explicit padding - memcpy() for known-length copies Remove the generic implementation, its declaration, the FORTIFY_SOURCE wrapper, and associated tests. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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