History log of /linux-master/drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_ioctl.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 9c9e3ab2 04-Oct-2023 Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>

net: ax88796c: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

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

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

It should be noted that there doesn't currently exist a bug here as
DRV_NAME is a small string literal which means no overread bugs are
present.

Also to note, other ethernet drivers are using strscpy in a similar
pattern:
| dec/tulip/tulip_core.c
| 861: strscpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));
|
| 8390/ax88796.c
| 582: strscpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));
|
| dec/tulip/dmfe.c
| 1077: strscpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));
|
| 8390/etherh.c
| 558: strscpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));

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
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-asix-ax88796c_ioctl-c-v1-1-6fafdc38b170@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>


# a97c69ba 20-Oct-2021 Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>

net: ax88796c: ASIX AX88796C SPI Ethernet Adapter Driver

ASIX AX88796[1] is a versatile ethernet adapter chip, that can be
connected to a CPU with a 8/16-bit bus or with an SPI. This driver
supports SPI connection.

The driver has been ported from the vendor kernel for ARTIK5[2]
boards. Several changes were made to adapt it to the current kernel
which include:

+ updated DT configuration,
+ clock configuration moved to DT,
+ new timer, ethtool and gpio APIs,
+ dev_* instead of pr_* and custom printk() wrappers,
+ removed awkward vendor power managemtn.
+ introduced ethtool tunable to control SPI compression

[1] https://www.asix.com.tw/products.php?op=pItemdetail&PItemID=104;65;86&PLine=65
[2] https://git.tizen.org/cgit/profile/common/platform/kernel/linux-3.10-artik/

The other ax88796 driver is for NE2000 compatible AX88796L chip. These
chips are not compatible. Hence, two separate drivers are required.

Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>