Re: [PATCH] asus-laptop: prefer strscpy() over strcpy()

["Luke Jones" <luke@ljones.dev>]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024, at 12:05 PM, 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
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
> Signed-off-by: Abdul Rahim <abdul.rahim@myyahoo.com>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c 
> b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> index 9d7e6b712abf..d460dd194f19 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> @@ -1832,8 +1832,8 @@ static int asus_acpi_add(struct acpi_device 
> *device)
>  	if (!asus)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	asus->handle = device->handle;
> -	strcpy(acpi_device_name(device), ASUS_LAPTOP_DEVICE_NAME);
> -	strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ASUS_LAPTOP_CLASS);
> +	strscpy(acpi_device_name(device), ASUS_LAPTOP_DEVICE_NAME);
> +	strscpy(acpi_device_class(device), ASUS_LAPTOP_CLASS);
>  	device->driver_data = asus;
>  	asus->device = device;
> 
> -- 
> 2.43.0

Looks good, thank you for doing this.

Reviewed-by: Luke D. Jones <luke@ljones.dev>