The patch titled Subject: mm/kasan: switch from strlcpy to strscpy has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-kasan-switch-from-strlcpy-to-strscpy.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-kasan-switch-from-strlcpy-to-strscpy.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-kasan-switch-from-strlcpy-to-strscpy.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Zhiyuan Dai <daizhiyuan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/kasan: switch from strlcpy to strscpy strlcpy is marked as deprecated in Documentation/process/deprecated.rst, and there is no functional difference when the caller expects truncation (when not checking the return value). strscpy is relatively better as it also avoids scanning the whole source string. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1613970647-23272-1-git-send-email-daizhiyuan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Zhiyuan Dai <daizhiyuan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kasan/report_generic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/kasan/report_generic.c~mm-kasan-switch-from-strlcpy-to-strscpy +++ a/mm/kasan/report_generic.c @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ static bool __must_check tokenize_frame_ } /* Copy token (+ 1 byte for '\0'). */ - strlcpy(token, *frame_descr, tok_len + 1); + strscpy(token, *frame_descr, tok_len + 1); } /* Advance frame_descr past separator. */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from daizhiyuan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-memremap-fixes-improper-spdx-comment-style.patch mm-interval_tree-add-comments-to-improve-code-reading.patch mm-dmapool-switch-from-strlcpy-to-strscpy.patch mm-kasan-switch-from-strlcpy-to-strscpy.patch mm-zswap-switch-from-strlcpy-to-strscpy.patch mm-swapfile-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-sparse-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-vmscan-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-compaction-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-oom_kill-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-shmem-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-page_alloc-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-filemap-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-mlock-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-frontswap-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-vmalloc-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-memory_hotplug-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-mempolicy-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch mm-mempool-minor-coding-style-tweaks.patch