The deprecated helper strcpy() performs no bounds checking on the destination buffer. This could result in linear overflows beyond the end of the buffer, leading to all kinds of misbehaviors. The safe replacement is strscpy() [1]. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1] Signed-off-by: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netrom/nr_route.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netrom/nr_route.c b/net/netrom/nr_route.c index bd2b17b219ae..e4e8c188cbc9 100644 --- a/net/netrom/nr_route.c +++ b/net/netrom/nr_route.c @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static int __must_check nr_add_node(ax25_address *nr, const char *mnemonic, } nr_node->callsign = *nr; - strcpy(nr_node->mnemonic, mnemonic); + strscpy(nr_node->mnemonic, mnemonic, sizeof(nr_node->mnemonic)); nr_node->which = 0; nr_node->count = 1; @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static int __must_check nr_add_node(ax25_address *nr, const char *mnemonic, nr_node_lock(nr_node); if (quality != 0) - strcpy(nr_node->mnemonic, mnemonic); + strscpy(nr_node->mnemonic, mnemonic, sizeof(nr_node->mnemonic)); for (found = 0, i = 0; i < nr_node->count; i++) { if (nr_node->routes[i].neighbour == nr_neigh) { -- 2.34.1