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/tipc/bearer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/tipc/bearer.c b/net/tipc/bearer.c index 3c9e25f6a1d2..ae1ddbf71853 100644 --- a/net/tipc/bearer.c +++ b/net/tipc/bearer.c @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ static int tipc_enable_bearer(struct net *net, const char *name, if (!b) return -ENOMEM; - strcpy(b->name, name); + strscpy(b->name, name); b->media = m; res = m->enable_media(net, b, attr); if (res) { -- 2.34.1
