Re: [PATCH v6] Documentation/checkpatch: Prefer stracpy over strcpy/strlcpy/strncpy.

[Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 16:52 +0530, NitinGote wrote:
> From: Nitin Gote <nitin.r.gote@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Added check in checkpatch.pl to deprecate strcpy(), strlcpy() and
> strncpy() in favor of stracpy().
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> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
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> +our %deprecated_string_apis = (
> +	"strcpy"		=> "stracpy",
> +	"strlcpy"		=> "stracpy",
> +	"strncpy"		=> "stracpy - for non-NUL-terminated uses, strncpy dest should be __nonstring",
> +);

Maybe:

our %deprecated_string_apis = (
	"strcpy"		=> "stracpy or strscpy",
	"strlcpy"		=> "stracpy or strscpy",
	"strncpy"		=> "stracpy or strscpy - for non-NUL-terminated uses, strncpy dest should be __nonstring",
);