linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] drm/nouveau : refactor deprecated strcpy

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Message-ID: <20251204120822.17502-1-madhurkumar004@gmail.com>
Date: Thu,  4 Dec 2025 17:38:22 +0530
From: Madhur Kumar <madhurkumar004@...il.com>
To: lyude@...hat.com,
	dakr@...nel.org
Cc: maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com,
	mripard@...nel.org,
	tzimmermann@...e.de,
	airlied@...il.com,
	simona@...ll.ch,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Madhur Kumar <madhurkumar004@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] drm/nouveau : refactor deprecated strcpy

strcpy() has been deprecated because it performs no bounds checking on the
destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Use the safer
strscpy() instead.

Signed-off-by: Madhur Kumar <madhurkumar004@...il.com>
---
changes in v2:
 - Remove the size parameter from strscpy

 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
index 869d4335c0f4..4a193b7d6d9e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
@@ -183,11 +183,11 @@ nouveau_fence_context_new(struct nouveau_channel *chan, struct nouveau_fence_cha
 	fctx->context = drm->runl[chan->runlist].context_base + chan->chid;
 
 	if (chan == drm->cechan)
-		strcpy(fctx->name, "copy engine channel");
+		strscpy(fctx->name, "copy engine channel");
 	else if (chan == drm->channel)
-		strcpy(fctx->name, "generic kernel channel");
+		strscpy(fctx->name, "generic kernel channel");
 	else
-		strcpy(fctx->name, cli->name);
+		strscpy(fctx->name, cli->name);
 
 	kref_init(&fctx->fence_ref);
 	if (!priv->uevent)
-- 
2.52.0