From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RESEND 1/2] afs: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy in afs_lookup_atsys
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 16:43:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260508144326.3566-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
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(), drop the manual length check and the
now-unused local length variable.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
fs/afs/dir.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c
index aaaa55878ffd..24cea4d7eadf 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dir.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/namei.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
@@ -914,7 +915,7 @@ static struct dentry *afs_lookup_atsys(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
struct afs_net *net = afs_i2net(dir);
struct dentry *ret;
char *buf, *p, *name;
- int len, i;
+ int i;
_enter("");
@@ -935,13 +936,11 @@ static struct dentry *afs_lookup_atsys(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
for (i = 0; i < subs->nr; i++) {
name = subs->subs[i];
- len = dentry->d_name.len - 4 + strlen(name);
- if (len >= AFSNAMEMAX) {
+ if (strscpy(p, name, AFSNAMEMAX - (p - buf)) < 0) {
ret = ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
goto out_s;
}
- strcpy(p, name);
ret = lookup_noperm(&QSTR(buf), dentry->d_parent);
if (IS_ERR(ret) || d_is_positive(ret))
goto out_s;
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2026-05-08 14:43 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2026-05-08 14:43 ` [PATCH RESEND 2/2] afs: replace goto with direct return in afs_lookup_atsys Thorsten Blum
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