On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 02:10:26PM +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote: > strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first. > This read may exceed the destination size limit. > This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read > overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1]. > In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace > strlcpy() here with strscpy(). > > Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno > is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest). > > [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy > [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89 > > Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613004402.3540432-1-azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx/ > > Changes from v1 - uses "< 0" instead of "== -E2BIG". Please fix the reported errors from the build bot. thanks greg k-h
