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/ipv6/ndisc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c index 1e42e40fb379..d231d678dabc 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c @@ -1944,7 +1944,7 @@ static void ndisc_warn_deprecated_sysctl(const struct ctl_table *ctl, static char warncomm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; static int warned; if (strcmp(warncomm, current->comm) && warned < 5) { - strcpy(warncomm, current->comm); + strscpy(warncomm, current->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN); pr_warn("process `%s' is using deprecated sysctl (%s) net.ipv6.neigh.%s.%s - use net.ipv6.neigh.%s.%s_ms instead\n", warncomm, func, dev_name, ctl->procname, -- 2.34.1
