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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
	Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: mixer_oss: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy()
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:49:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250618224926.GS1880847@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250618223631.1244-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>

On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 12:36:29AM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> strcpy() is deprecated; use strscpy() instead.
> 
> No functional changes intended.

Have you actually read the damn thing?  Seriously, look at the uses
of 'str' downstream.  The only thing it is ever passed to is strcmp().

In other words, why do we need to copy it anywhere?  What's wrong with
having char *str instead of that array and replacing strcpy() with
plain and simple pointer assignment?

  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-18 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-18 22:36 [PATCH] ALSA: mixer_oss: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() Thorsten Blum
2025-06-18 22:49 ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-06-19 12:50   ` Thorsten Blum
2025-06-20  8:08     ` Takashi Iwai
2025-06-23 11:05       ` Thorsten Blum

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