From: Atharv Dubey <atharvd440@gmail.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: buslogic: replace strcpy() with strscpy()
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:13:00 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44b1f4b2-69d8-423a-8ab2-8de7b2fa84ee@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260314-strcpy-v1-1-0b38691fe11e@gmail.com>
A Gentle Reminder for reviewing the patch.
Thanks,
Atharv
On 3/14/26 01:58, Atharv Dubey wrote:
> strcpy() is deprecated as it does not perform bounds checking[1].
> Using it can risk buffer overflows if the source string exceeds
> the destination.
>
> Replace occurrences of strcpy() with the safer strscpy() where
> the size of buffer is being checked.
>
> Compile tested.
>
> [1] Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
>
> Signed-off-by: Atharv Dubey <atharvd440@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c b/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
> index da6599ae3d0d..c070f3b8197e 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
> @@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ static bool __init blogic_rdconfig(struct blogic_adapter *adapter)
> for (i = 0; i < sizeof(fpinfo->model); i++)
> *tgt++ = fpinfo->model[i];
> *tgt++ = '\0';
> - strcpy(adapter->fw_ver, FLASHPOINT_FW_VER);
> + strscpy(adapter->fw_ver, FLASHPOINT_FW_VER);
> adapter->scsi_id = fpinfo->scsi_id;
> adapter->ext_trans_enable = fpinfo->ext_trans_enable;
> adapter->parity = fpinfo->parity;
> @@ -3451,12 +3451,12 @@ static void blogic_msg(enum blogic_msglevel msglevel, char *fmt,
> va_end(args);
> if (msglevel == BLOGIC_ANNOUNCE_LEVEL) {
> static int msglines = 0;
> - strcpy(&adapter->msgbuf[adapter->msgbuflen], buf);
> + strscpy(&adapter->msgbuf[adapter->msgbuflen], buf);
> adapter->msgbuflen += len;
> if (++msglines <= 2)
> printk("%sscsi: %s", blogic_msglevelmap[msglevel], buf);
> } else if (msglevel == BLOGIC_INFO_LEVEL) {
> - strcpy(&adapter->msgbuf[adapter->msgbuflen], buf);
> + strscpy(&adapter->msgbuf[adapter->msgbuflen], buf);
> adapter->msgbuflen += len;
> if (begin) {
> if (buf[0] != '\n' || len > 1)
>
> ---
> base-commit: 173b959a8bb814f55660f7c34ddedd4e75c203d2
> change-id: 20260314-strcpy-da7093836551
>
> Best regards,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-19 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-13 20:28 [PATCH] scsi: buslogic: replace strcpy() with strscpy() Atharv Dubey
2026-03-19 14:43 ` Atharv Dubey [this message]
2026-03-26 14:01 ` Atharv Dubey
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