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* [PATCH] kdb: kdb_support: replace strcpy() by strscpy()
@ 2019-04-22 16:21 Gustavo A. R. Silva
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From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2019-04-22 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jason Wessel, Daniel Thompson
  Cc: kgdb-bugreport, linux-kernel, Gustavo A. R. Silva

The strcpy() function is being deprecated. Replace it by the safer
strscpy() and fix the following Coverity warning:

"You might overrun the 129-character fixed-size string ks_namebuf
by copying name without checking the length."

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 138995 ("Copy into fixed size buffer")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
 kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
index 50bf9b119bad..b8e6306e7e13 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ int kallsyms_symbol_complete(char *prefix_name, int max_len)
 
 	while ((name = kdb_walk_kallsyms(&pos))) {
 		if (strncmp(name, prefix_name, prefix_len) == 0) {
-			strcpy(ks_namebuf, name);
+			strscpy(ks_namebuf, name, sizeof(ks_namebuf));
 			/* Work out the longest name that matches the prefix */
 			if (++number == 1) {
 				prev_len = min_t(int, max_len-1,
-- 
2.21.0


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