Re: [PATCH] drivers/iio: Remove all strcpy() uses in favor of strscpy()

Len Baker
2021-08-07T15:02:22Z

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 08:55:28PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 19:11:57 +0200
> Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > 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().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
>
> Hi Len,
>
> I'm not convinced this is terribly useful in this particular case.
> As the code stands today, it is easy to verify that the buffer is
> large enough by looking up a few lines. As you need to do that
> anyway to check that n, n -1 in the strscpy is correct, what do we gain?
>
> I don't mind this if it's part of a general removal of strcpy(), but
> if so the patch description should state that.

Ok, I will send a new version with the commit changelog updated.

Regards,
Len