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* [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Replace deprecated strcpy in ocfs2_create_xattr_block
@ 2025-11-18 18:53 Thorsten Blum
  2025-11-18 18:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: Replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy Thorsten Blum
  2025-11-19  5:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Replace deprecated strcpy in ocfs2_create_xattr_block Joseph Qi
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Blum @ 2025-11-18 18:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mark Fasheh, Joel Becker, Joseph Qi
  Cc: Thorsten Blum, ocfs2-devel, linux-kernel

strcpy() has been deprecated [1] because it performs no bounds checking
on the destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Replace
it with the safer strscpy(), and copy directly into '->xb_signature'
instead of using the start of the struct as the destination buffer.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
 fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
index d70a20d29e3e..73c028f452ac 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
@@ -2908,7 +2908,7 @@ static int ocfs2_create_xattr_block(struct inode *inode,
 	/* Initialize ocfs2_xattr_block */
 	xblk = (struct ocfs2_xattr_block *)new_bh->b_data;
 	memset(xblk, 0, inode->i_sb->s_blocksize);
-	strcpy((void *)xblk, OCFS2_XATTR_BLOCK_SIGNATURE);
+	strscpy(xblk->xb_signature, OCFS2_XATTR_BLOCK_SIGNATURE);
 	xblk->xb_suballoc_slot = cpu_to_le16(ctxt->meta_ac->ac_alloc_slot);
 	xblk->xb_suballoc_loc = cpu_to_le64(suballoc_loc);
 	xblk->xb_suballoc_bit = cpu_to_le16(suballoc_bit_start);
-- 
2.51.1


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