[PATCH] usb: replace strcpy() with strscpy()
Aditya Garg
gargaditya08 at live.com
Sat Mar 1 04:09:36 AEDT 2025
> On 28 Feb 2025, at 10:33 PM, gregkh at linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 03:07:03PM +0000, Aditya Garg wrote:
>> From: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08 at live.com>
>>
>> The strcpy() function has been deprecated and replaced with strscpy().
>> This patch shall replace it in the whole USB tree.
>>
>> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
>> Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08 at live.com>
>
> As the two functions do different things, are you sure it is safe to
> just do a search/replace here? If so, you need to explain that in the
> changelog why this is ok, and if not, please document that as well :)
That's actually a good question. From what I can tell from the kernel docs, the only case where this can be a problem is when strcpy is returning. While I don't see any such case over here, I'll still double check if that's the case. Also, I'll wait for the kernel test bot results.
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