On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 12:25:39PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > 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." Ok, I've now dropped this patch from all stable queues, sorry for the noise. greg k-h