Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2025-03-01

Re: [PATCH] usb: replace strcpy() with strscpy()

From: Aditya Garg <hidden>
Date: 2025-02-28 17:09:46
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On 28 Feb 2025, at 10:33 PM, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 03:07:03PM +0000, Aditya Garg wrote:
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From: Aditya Garg <redacted>

The strcpy() function has been deprecated and replaced with strscpy().
This patch shall replace it in the whole USB tree.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <redacted>
As the two functions do different things, are you sure it is safe to
just do a search/replace here?  If so, you need to explain that in the
changelog why this is ok, and if not, please document that as well :)
That's actually a good question. From what I can tell from the kernel docs, the only case where this can be a problem is when strcpy is returning. While I don't see any such case over here, I'll still double check if that's the case. Also, I'll wait for the kernel test bot results.
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