net: mdio_bus: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

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strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

We expect mdiodev->modalias to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with
strcmp():
|       return strcmp(mdiodev->modalias, drv->name) == 0;

Moreover, mdiodev->modalias is already zero-allocated:
|       mdiodev = kzalloc(sizeof(*mdiodev), GFP_KERNEL);
... which means the NUL-padding strncpy provides is not necessary.

Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to
the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer
without unnecessarily NUL-padding.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Justin Stitt 2023-12-07 21:57:50 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c

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