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[PATCH v2] video: fbdev: via: refactor strcpy and viafb_name

From: Ajith P V <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-14 06:54:44
Also in: dri-devel, lkml
Subsystem: framebuffer layer, the rest, via unichrome(pro)/chrome9 framebuffer driver · Maintainers: Helge Deller, Linus Torvalds, Florian Tobias Schandinat

Replace the deprecated and unbounded strcpy() function with the safer
strscpy() alternative when setting up the framebuffer fixed screen
information [1][2].

It aligns this driver with the ongoing kernel-wide security initiative
to eliminate unbounded string copies, hardening the code against future
modifications.

Additionally, convert the file-scope `viafb_name` pointer into a
`static const char[]` array and update its value to "viafb".
This permits the compiler to execute compile-time bounds checking and
aggressively optimize the runtime string copy operation out entirely.

This is a proactive API cleanup and there is no functional performance
or truncation risk.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88 [2]

Signed-off-by: Ajith P V <redacted>
---
v2:
  - Keep variable static but change it to a const array 
    'static const char viafb_name[] = "viafb"' as suggested by Helge Deller 
    to let the compiler leverage compile-time checks.

 drivers/video/fbdev/via/viafbdev.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/via/viafbdev.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/via/viafbdev.c
index 80f95dac32c8..b3a2e07b61a7 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/via/viafbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/via/viafbdev.c
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #define _MASTER_FILE
 #include "global.h"
 
-static char *viafb_name = "Via";
+static const char viafb_name[] = "viafb";
 static u32 pseudo_pal[17];
 
 /* video mode */
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static void viafb_setup_fixinfo(struct fb_fix_screeninfo *fix,
 	struct viafb_par *viaparinfo)
 {
 	memset(fix, 0, sizeof(struct fb_fix_screeninfo));
-	strcpy(fix->id, viafb_name);
+	strscpy(fix->id, viafb_name, sizeof(fix->id));
 
 	fix->smem_start = viaparinfo->fbmem;
 	fix->smem_len = viaparinfo->fbmem_free;
-- 
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