linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Updating a deprecated use of strcpy in ac.c file.

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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0hK7JgS5UemkjE2sipvdeHA=jTqcgbj2gZTKH2kYsO8jQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 16:37:09 +0200
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To: Muhammad Qasim Abdul Majeed <qasim.majeed20@...il.com>
Cc: rafael@...nel.org, lenb@...nel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Updating a deprecated use of strcpy in ac.c file.

On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 9:48 AM Muhammad Qasim Abdul Majeed
<qasim.majeed20@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Replacing strcpy with strscpy.
> strcpy is a deprecated function.
> It should be removed from the kernel source.
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
>
> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Qasim Abdul Majeed <qasim.majeed20@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/ac.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ac.c b/drivers/acpi/ac.c
> index 09a87fa222c7..ad1427a384e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/ac.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/ac.c
> @@ -213,8 +213,8 @@ static int acpi_ac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>
>         ac->device = adev;
> -       strcpy(acpi_device_name(adev), ACPI_AC_DEVICE_NAME);
> -       strcpy(acpi_device_class(adev), ACPI_AC_CLASS);
> +       strscpy(acpi_device_name(adev), ACPI_AC_DEVICE_NAME);
> +       strscpy(acpi_device_class(adev), ACPI_AC_CLASS);
>
>         platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ac);
>
> --

Please see this commit:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git/commit/?h=bleeding-edge&id=142acc42a7443f377b1a452ce906dc3adec91f70

and format the subjects and changelogs of all of your ACPI patches
that replace strcpy() with strscpy() in analogy with it.

Thanks!