From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
To: corentin.chary@gmail.com, luke@ljones.dev, hdegoede@redhat.com,
Abdul Rahim <abdul.rahim@myyahoo.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asus-laptop: prefer strscpy() over strcpy()
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:25:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <172856314314.1946.14702947705883158463.b4-ty@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241009230558.51892-1-abdul.rahim@myyahoo.com>
On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 04:35:58 +0530, Abdul Rahim wrote:
> The function strcpy() is depreciated and potentially unsafe. It performs
> no bounds checking on the destination buffer. This could result in
> linear overflows beyond the end of the buffer, leading to all kinds of
> misbehaviors. The safe replacement is strscpy() [1].
>
> this fixes checkpatch warning:
> WARNING: Prefer strscpy over strcpy
>
> [...]
Thank you for your contribution, it has been applied to my local
review-ilpo branch. Note it will show up in the public
platform-drivers-x86/review-ilpo branch only once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.
The list of commits applied:
[1/1] asus-laptop: prefer strscpy() over strcpy()
commit: 8150408bfdb2f9c17970295427cf91470189e6d0
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[not found] <20241009230558.51892-1-abdul.rahim.ref@myyahoo.com>
2024-10-09 23:05 ` Abdul Rahim
2024-10-09 23:10 ` Luke Jones
2024-10-10 9:40 ` Hans de Goede
2024-10-10 12:25 ` Ilpo Järvinen [this message]
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