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* [PATCH RESEND] x86/olpc/xo15/sci: Replace strcpy with strscpy in xo15_sci_add
@ 2025-11-24 12:54 Thorsten Blum
  2026-01-05 15:05 ` [tip: x86/cleanups] x86/platform/olpc: Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in xo15_sci_add() tip-bot2 for Thorsten Blum
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From: Thorsten Blum @ 2025-11-24 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, x86,
	H. Peter Anvin
  Cc: Thorsten Blum, linux-kernel

strcpy() has been deprecated [1] because it performs no bounds checking
on the destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Use the
safer strscpy() instead.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
Updated link and patch description.
---
 arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc-xo15-sci.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc-xo15-sci.c b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc-xo15-sci.c
index 68244a3422d1..82c51b6ec528 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc-xo15-sci.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc-xo15-sci.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/power_supply.h>
 #include <linux/olpc-ec.h>
@@ -144,8 +145,8 @@ static int xo15_sci_add(struct acpi_device *device)
 	if (!device)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	strcpy(acpi_device_name(device), XO15_SCI_DEVICE_NAME);
-	strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), XO15_SCI_CLASS);
+	strscpy(acpi_device_name(device), XO15_SCI_DEVICE_NAME);
+	strscpy(acpi_device_class(device), XO15_SCI_CLASS);
 
 	/* Get GPE bit assignment (EC events). */
 	status = acpi_evaluate_integer(device->handle, "_GPE", NULL, &tmp);
-- 
2.51.1


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