From: Ajith P V <ajithpv.linux@gmail.com>
To: w.d.hubbs@gmail.com, chris@the-brannons.com, kirk@reisers.ca,
samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Cc: speakup@linux-speakup.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ajith P V <ajithpv.linux@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] accessibility: speakup: refactor deprecated strcpy
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 11:10:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260807111058.91464-1-ajithpv.linux@gmail.com> (raw)
strcpy() is deprecated, use strscpy() instead.
As strcpy() performs no bounds checking on the destination buffer. This
could result in buffer overflow. The safe replacement is strscpy() [1][2].
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88 [2]
Signed-off-by: Ajith P V <ajithpv.linux@gmail.com>
---
drivers/accessibility/speakup/varhandlers.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/accessibility/speakup/varhandlers.c b/drivers/accessibility/speakup/varhandlers.c
index 462f8d879053..c6d3b4cc1af8 100644
--- a/drivers/accessibility/speakup/varhandlers.c
+++ b/drivers/accessibility/speakup/varhandlers.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
#include "spk_types.h"
#include "spk_priv.h"
#include "speakup.h"
@@ -265,10 +266,10 @@ int spk_set_string_var(const char *page, struct st_var_header *var, int len)
if (!var->p_val)
var->p_val = var_data->u.s.default_val;
if (var->p_val != var_data->u.s.default_val)
- strcpy((char *)var->p_val, var_data->u.s.default_val);
+ strscpy((char *)var->p_val, var_data->u.s.default_val, MAXVARLEN + 1);
return -ERESTART;
} else if (var->p_val) {
- strcpy((char *)var->p_val, page);
+ strscpy((char *)var->p_val, page, MAXVARLEN + 1);
} else {
return -E2BIG;
}
--
2.43.0
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