[PATCH v2 2/4] banned.h: mark strcat() as banned
From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-24 09:26:42
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-24 09:26:42
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
The strcat() function has all of the same overflow problems as strcpy(). And as a bonus, it's easy to end up accidentally quadratic, as each subsequent call has to walk through the existing string. The last strcat() call went away in f063d38b80 (daemon: use cld->env_array when re-spawning, 2015-09-24). In general, strcat() can be replaced either with a dynamic string (strbuf or xstrfmt), or with xsnprintf if you know the length is bounded. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted> --- banned.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/banned.h b/banned.h
index c50091ad7d..32e0bae01d 100644
--- a/banned.h
+++ b/banned.h@@ -12,5 +12,7 @@ #undef strcpy #define strcpy(x,y) BANNED(strcpy) +#undef strcat +#define strcat(x,y) BANNED(strcat) #endif /* BANNED_H */
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