Added warnings in checkpatch.pl script to : 1. Deprecate strcpy() in favor of strscpy(). 2. Deprecate strlcpy() in favor of strscpy(). 3. Deprecate strncpy() in favor of strscpy() or strscpy_pad(). Signed-off-by: Nitin Gote <nitin.r.gote@xxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 342c7c7..bb0fa11 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -595,6 +595,9 @@ our %deprecated_apis = ( "rcu_barrier_sched" => "rcu_barrier", "get_state_synchronize_sched" => "get_state_synchronize_rcu", "cond_synchronize_sched" => "cond_synchronize_rcu", + "strcpy" => "strscpy", + "strlcpy" => "strscpy", + "strncpy" => "strscpy or strscpy_pad", ); #Create a search pattern for all these strings to speed up a loop below -- 2.7.4
