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, 26 Mar 2026 19:31:15 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <721ccd4a-109e-4e80-9116-9d116536e9dd@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44b1f4b2-69d8-423a-8ab2-8de7b2fa84ee@gmail.com>
A Gentle Reminder for Reviewing the patch
Regards,
Atharv
On 3/19/26 20:13, Atharv Dubey wrote:
> 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,
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-26 14:01 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
2026-03-26 14:01 ` Atharv Dubey [this message]
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