From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Cc: Ivan Orlov <ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com>,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: pcmtest: Replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy_pad in setup_patt_bufs
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:17:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87346ac7yh.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251119135217.233084-1-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:52:17 +0100,
Thorsten Blum wrote:
>
> strcpy() has been deprecated [1] because it performs no bounds checking
> on the destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Replace
> it with the safer strscpy_pad(), and use kmalloc() instead of kzalloc()
> because strscpy_pad() zero-pads the destination buffer and therefore
> avoids writing to it twice.
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Applied to for-next branch now. Thanks.
Takashi
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2025-11-19 13:52 [PATCH] ALSA: pcmtest: Replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy_pad in setup_patt_bufs Thorsten Blum
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