On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 13:46 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 11:24 +0530, Nitin Gote wrote: > > 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(). > > > > Updated strncpy() section in Documentation/process/deprecated.rst > > to cover strscpy_pad() case. [] I sent a patch series for some strscpy/strlcpy misuses. How about adding a macro helper to avoid the misuses like: --- include/linux/string.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index 4deb11f7976b..ef01bd6f19df 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -35,6 +35,22 @@ ssize_t strscpy(char *, const char *, size_t); /* Wraps calls to strscpy()/memset(), no arch specific code required */ ssize_t strscpy_pad(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count); +#define stracpy(to, from) \ +({ \ + size_t size = ARRAY_SIZE(to); \ + BUILD_BUG_ON(!__same_type(typeof(*to), char)); \ + \ + strscpy(to, from, size); \ +}) + +#define stracpy_pad(to, from) \ +({ \ + size_t size = ARRAY_SIZE(to); \ + BUILD_BUG_ON(!__same_type(typeof(*to), char)); \ + \ + strscpy_pad(to, from, size); \ +}) + #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCAT extern char * strcat(char *, const char *); #endif