* [PATCH 1/2] init: Use strscpy() in do_initcalls()
@ 2026-11-14 11:52 Thorsten Blum
2026-11-14 11:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] init: Use kmalloc() " Thorsten Blum
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Blum @ 2026-11-14 11:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton, Masami Hiramatsu (Google), Breno Leitao,
Christian Brauner, Sang-Heon Jeon, Wilson Felipe Pereira,
Ryan Roberts
Cc: Thorsten Blum, Mike Rapoport (Microsoft), linux-kernel
Replace the deprecated strcpy() [1] with strscpy() to bound the copy to
the allocated buffer size.
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <blum@kernel.org>
---
init/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index db8fb6ebe830..93a2b12976f0 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -1481,7 +1481,7 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void)
for (level = 0; level < ARRAY_SIZE(initcall_levels) - 1; level++) {
/* Parser modifies command_line, restore it each time */
- strcpy(command_line, saved_command_line);
+ strscpy(command_line, saved_command_line, len);
do_initcall_level(level, command_line);
}
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2026-11-14 11:52 [PATCH 1/2] init: Use strscpy() in do_initcalls() Thorsten Blum
@ 2026-11-14 11:52 ` Thorsten Blum
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Blum @ 2026-11-14 11:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton, Masami Hiramatsu (Google), Breno Leitao,
Sang-Heon Jeon, Christian Brauner, Wilson Felipe Pereira,
Ryan Roberts
Cc: Thorsten Blum, linux-kernel
Use kmalloc() since strscpy() already NUL-terminates command_line.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <blum@kernel.org>
---
init/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 93a2b12976f0..7f52a1b00c0f 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -1475,7 +1475,7 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void)
size_t len = saved_command_line_len + 1;
char *command_line;
- command_line = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ command_line = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!command_line)
panic("%s: Failed to allocate %zu bytes\n", __func__, len);
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