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| author | Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com> | 2024-08-28 20:32:19 +0800 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2024-08-29 12:33:07 -0700 |
| commit | 68016b997222c9f866912f6911815105ed2ce473 (patch) | |
| tree | 9574f3317c37ea1f93a4475fb26a727ce8885c90 /net | |
| parent | 3cbd2090d334eb4456db0005f7b76adb3b6fd8db (diff) | |
net: prefer strscpy over strcpy
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@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 63987b8b7c85..932d67b975f5 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -11143,7 +11143,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name, if (!dev->ethtool) goto free_all; - strcpy(dev->name, name); + strscpy(dev->name, name); dev->name_assign_type = name_assign_type; dev->group = INIT_NETDEV_GROUP; if (!dev->ethtool_ops) |