Re: [PATCH linux-next] perf intel-pt: replace strlcpy() with strscpy()

[Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>]

On 12/12/23 05:22, yang.guang5@zte.com.cn wrote:
> From: Yang Guang <yang.guang5@zte.com.cn>
> 
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first. This read may exceed
> the destination size limit. This is both inefficient and can lead
> to linear read overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated.
> No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Haonan <chen.haonan2@zte.com.cn>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
> index b450178e3420..5b14c6701ecb 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
> @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ int intel_pt__strerror(int code, char *buf, size_t buflen)
>  {
>  	if (code < 1 || code >= INTEL_PT_ERR_MAX)
>  		code = INTEL_PT_ERR_UNK;
> -	strlcpy(buf, intel_pt_err_msgs[code], buflen);
> +	strscpy(buf, intel_pt_err_msgs[code], buflen);
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 

perf doesn't have strscpy():

util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c: In function ‘intel_pt__strerror’:
util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c:510:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘strscpy’; did you mean ‘strlcpy’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  510 |         strscpy(buf, intel_pt_err_msgs[code], buflen);
      |         ^~~~~~~
      |         strlcpy
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors