The patch titled Subject: mm/memfd: replace strcpy() by strscpy() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-memfd-replace-strcpy-by-strscpy.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Stephen Zhang <stephenzhangzsd@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/memfd: replace strcpy() by strscpy() strcpy() is being deprecated. Replace it with the safer strscpy(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611455017-2210-1-git-send-email-stephenzhangzsd@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Stephen Zhang <stephenzhangzsd@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memfd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/memfd.c~mm-memfd-replace-strcpy-by-strscpy +++ a/mm/memfd.c @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(memfd_create, if (!name) return -ENOMEM; - strcpy(name, MFD_NAME_PREFIX); + strscpy(name, MFD_NAME_PREFIX, len + MFD_NAME_PREFIX_LEN); if (copy_from_user(&name[MFD_NAME_PREFIX_LEN], uname, len)) { error = -EFAULT; goto err_name; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from stephenzhangzsd@xxxxxxxxx are mm-swapfilec-fix-debugging-information-problem.patch mm-early_ioremapc-use-__func__-instead-of-function-name.patch