linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] sparc: PCI: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy()

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Message-ID: <d676606e-f448-434b-be26-c839dea4f5d1@gaisler.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:13:19 +0200
From: Andreas Larsson <andreas@...sler.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
 Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
 Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
 sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] sparc: PCI: Replace deprecated strcpy() with
 strscpy()

On 2025-09-17 17:50, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 04:47:30PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
>> strcpy() is deprecated; use strscpy() instead.
>>
>> No functional changes intended.
>>
>> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
>> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
> 
> No objection from me, but no particular PCI core issue and I don't
> maintain this file, so up to the sparc folks if they want it.
> 
> I would consider making a single patch to address this issue
> everywhere in arch/sparc so it can all be reviewed together.

Thank you and sorry for the late feedback. I agree with the above.
Thorsten, could you fix this for all occurrences of strcpy() in
arch/sparc?

Thanks,
Andreas