Re: [PATCH 2/2] scripts: checkpatch.pl: add warning for strlcat()

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 5/10/26 9:56 AM, Manuel Ebner wrote:
> add a warning for strlcat()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 0492d6afc9a1..ca1a8e67d529 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -7085,6 +7085,12 @@ sub process {
>  			     "Prefer strscpy over strlcpy - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89\n" . $herecurr);
>  		}
>  
> +# strlcat uses that should likely be

should likely be what?

> +		if ($line =~ /\bstrlcat\s*\(/ && !is_userspace($realfile)) {
> +			WARN("STRLCAT",
> +			     "Prefer seq_buf_printf() over strlcat - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/370\n" . $herecurr);
> +		}
> +
>  # strncpy uses that should likely be strscpy or strscpy_pad
>  		if ($line =~ /\bstrncpy\s*\(/ && !is_userspace($realfile)) {
>  			WARN("STRNCPY",

-- 
~Randy