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From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
	linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] afs: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy in afs_lookup_atsys
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:45:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260324154515.205796-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)

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(), drop the manual length check and the
now-unused local length variable.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
 fs/afs/dir.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c
index 78caef3f1338..89d5c9c354d4 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dir.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/swap.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
@@ -914,7 +915,7 @@ static struct dentry *afs_lookup_atsys(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	struct afs_net *net = afs_i2net(dir);
 	struct dentry *ret;
 	char *buf, *p, *name;
-	int len, i;
+	int i;
 
 	_enter("");
 
@@ -935,13 +936,11 @@ static struct dentry *afs_lookup_atsys(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < subs->nr; i++) {
 		name = subs->subs[i];
-		len = dentry->d_name.len - 4 + strlen(name);
-		if (len >= AFSNAMEMAX) {
+		if (strscpy(p, name, AFSNAMEMAX - (p - buf)) < 0) {
 			ret = ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
 			goto out_s;
 		}
 
-		strcpy(p, name);
 		ret = lookup_noperm(&QSTR(buf), dentry->d_parent);
 		if (IS_ERR(ret) || d_is_positive(ret))
 			goto out_s;

             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-24 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-24 15:45 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2026-03-24 15:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] afs: replace goto with direct return in afs_lookup_atsys Thorsten Blum

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