[PATCH] scsi: ibmvscsi: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
Tyrel Datwyler
tyreld at linux.ibm.com
Thu May 18 07:01:54 AEST 2023
On 5/17/23 07:34, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
> overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> strlcpy() here with strscpy().
> No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
>
> Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38 at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld at linux.ibm.com>
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