From: Ai Chao <aichao@kylinos.cn>
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Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH 03/35] fbdev: sisfb: Use safer strscpy() instead of strcpy()
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:09:10 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260427090910.1940231-1-aichao@kylinos.cn> (raw)
Hello David and Helge
...
> > > - strcpy(ivideo->myid, "SiS 730");
> > > + strscpy(ivideo->myid, "SiS 730");
> >
> > The compiler knows at build time the length of myid, and the "SIS 730" string.
> > Using strscpy() has no benefit here either. Contrary, the code generated
> > because of using strscpy() is probably even larger.
> > Don't replace such code with strscpy().
> Both should get converted to a memcpy().
> If you increase the literal to be too long I'm pretty sure you'll
> get a compiler warning/error from strcpy().
> OTOH strscpy() is more likely to truncate the string (I'd need to
> check).
> So leaving it as strcpy() is fine - and possibly even better.
> The header files might get changed to error strcpy() unless the compiler
> knows the source string has a constant length and the destination is
> big enough - but that hasn't been done yet.
struct sis_video_info {
char myid[40];
}
I have rewritten the code:
strcpy(ivideo->myid, "SiS 730-0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789");
Used gcc version 11.4.0 (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04.3)
There was no compiler warning or error.
The strcpy copies the entire string into myid(causing a buffer overflow),
whereas strscpy only copies 40 characters into myid according to its size.
Thanks,
Ai Chao
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-27 9:09 UTC|newest]
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2026-04-27 9:09 Ai Chao [this message]
2026-04-27 9:17 ` [PATCH 03/35] fbdev: sisfb: Use safer strscpy() instead of strcpy() Helge Deller
2026-04-27 13:05 ` David Laight
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2026-04-27 10:14 Ai Chao
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