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Message-ID: <CAKAoaQnOfAU2LgLRwNNHion=-iHB1fSfPnfSFUQMmUyyEzu6LQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 21:20:10 +0100
From: Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@...bsig.org>
To: open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs_sysfs_link_rpc_client(): Replace strcpy with strscpy
On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 3:49 AM Daniel Yang <danielyangkang@...il.com> wrote:
>
> The function strcpy is deprecated due to lack of bounds checking. The
> recommended replacement is strscpy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Yang <danielyangkang@...il.com>
> ---
> fs/nfs/sysfs.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/sysfs.c b/fs/nfs/sysfs.c
> index bf378ecd5..f3d0b2ef9 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/sysfs.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/sysfs.c
> @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ void nfs_sysfs_link_rpc_client(struct nfs_server *server,
> char name[RPC_CLIENT_NAME_SIZE];
> int ret;
>
> - strcpy(name, clnt->cl_program->name);
> + strscpy(name, clnt->cl_program->name);
How should the "bounds checking" work in this case if you only pass
two arguments ?
Per https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html
|strscpy()| takes three arguments...
----
Bye,
Roland
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