On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:05:00 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493806274-13936-1-git-send-email-amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx > Hm, Amit asked me to merge all of these for some reason. I guess people > see the "oh, look, strcpy is bad!" and jump to wrong conclusions. I said the same thing when accepting it. From the thread that is referenced by the Link tag: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149382004318095&w=2 "Note, I don't see anyway to trigger a bug. To me this looks simply like someone saw "strcpy" and said to themselves "oh this is a bug", when actuality it is not. I don't mind the extra security added, but I don't think this even needs to go to stable. The reason is that the comm used within the kernel is always created by the kernel, and always has a terminating nul character. There's other places in the kernel that will bug if that is not true." -- Steve > > {sigh} > > Amit, can I drop these and you will not get upset? > > thanks, > > greg k-h