Re: [PATCH] asus-laptop: prefer strscpy() over strcpy()

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Hi,

On 10-Oct-24 1:05 AM, Abdul Rahim wrote:
> The function strcpy() is depreciated and potentially unsafe. It 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].
> 
> this fixes checkpatch warning:
>     WARNING: Prefer strscpy over strcpy
> 
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
> Signed-off-by: Abdul Rahim <abdul.rahim@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, patch looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,

Hans



> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> index 9d7e6b712abf..d460dd194f19 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> @@ -1832,8 +1832,8 @@ static int asus_acpi_add(struct acpi_device *device)
>  	if (!asus)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	asus->handle = device->handle;
> -	strcpy(acpi_device_name(device), ASUS_LAPTOP_DEVICE_NAME);
> -	strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ASUS_LAPTOP_CLASS);
> +	strscpy(acpi_device_name(device), ASUS_LAPTOP_DEVICE_NAME);
> +	strscpy(acpi_device_class(device), ASUS_LAPTOP_CLASS);
>  	device->driver_data = asus;
>  	asus->device = device;
>  





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