[PATCH v8 7/8] net: Replace strcpy() with strscpy()

Justin Stitt justinstitt at google.com
Thu Sep 12 21:22:05 UTC 2024


Hi,

On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 11:03:20AM GMT, Yafang Shao wrote:
> To prevent errors from occurring when the src string is longer than the dst
> string in strcpy(), we should use strscpy() instead. This approach
> also facilitates future extensions to the task comm.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao at gmail.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern at kernel.org>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>
> ---
>  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 b8eec1b6cc2c..cf7c36463b33 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);
>  		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,
> -- 
> 2.43.5
> 
>

Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt at google.com>

Thanks
Justin



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