Re: [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: prefer strscpy over strcpy
From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2024-08-27 12:30:41
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 07:35:22PM +0800, Hongbo Li wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The deprecated helper strcpy() performs no bounds checking on the destination buffer. This could result in linear overflows beyond the end of the buffer, leading to all kinds of misbehaviors. The safe replacement is strscpy() [1]. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1] Signed-off-by: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com> --- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 0d0b983a6c21..f5e0a0d801fd 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c@@ -11121,7 +11121,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name, if (!dev->ethtool) goto free_all; - strcpy(dev->name, name); + strscpy(dev->name, name, sizeof(dev->name));
You can just do: strscpy(dev->name, name); I prefer this format because it ensures that dev->name is an array and not a pointer. Also shorter. regards, dan carpenter