While trying to address a Coverity warning that the dev_name string might end up unterminated when strcpy'ing it in selinux_ib_endport_manage_subnet(), I realized that it is possible (and simpler) to just pass the dev_name pointer directly, rather than copying the string to a buffer. The ibendport variable goes out of scope at the end of the function anyway, so the lifetime of the dev_name pointer will never be shorter than that of ibendport, thus we can safely just pass the dev_name pointer and be done with it. Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace(a)redhat.com&gt; --- include/linux/lsm_audit.h | 8 ++++---- security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) v2: just pass the dev_name pointer and avoid the string copy v1: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20210507130445.145457-1-omosnace@redhat.c... diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_audit.h b/include/linux/lsm_audit.h index cd23355d2271..17d02eda9538 100644 --- a/include/linux/lsm_audit.h +++ b/include/linux/lsm_audit.h @@ -48,13 +48,13 @@ struct lsm_ioctlop_audit { }; struct lsm_ibpkey_audit { - u64 subnet_prefix; - u16 pkey; + u64 subnet_prefix; + u16 pkey; }; struct lsm_ibendport_audit { - char dev_name[IB_DEVICE_NAME_MAX]; - u8 port; + const char *dev_name; + u8 port; }; /* Auxiliary data to use in generating the audit record. */ diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c index 92f909a2e8f7..4d9764dad18f 100644 --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c @@ -6864,7 +6864,7 @@ static int selinux_ib_endport_manage_subnet(void *ib_sec, const char *dev_name, return err; ad.type = LSM_AUDIT_DATA_IBENDPORT; - strncpy(ibendport.dev_name, dev_name, sizeof(ibendport.dev_name)); + ibendport.dev_name = dev_name; ibendport.port = port_num; ad.u.ibendport = &ibendport; return avc_has_perm(&selinux_state, -- 2.31.1