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@ 2026-06-06 20:26 david.laight.linux
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From: david.laight.linux @ 2026-06-06 20:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kees Cook, linux-hardening, Arnd Bergmann, linux-kernel,
	linux-net-drivers, netdev
  Cc: Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Edward Cree, Eric Dumazet,
	Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Laight

From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
---
This is one of a group of patches that remove potentially unbounded
strcpy() calls.

They are mostly replaced by strscpy() or, when strlen() has just been
called, with memcpy() (usually including the '\0').

Calls with copy string literals into arrays are left unchanged.
They are safe and easily detected as such.

The changes were made by getting the compiler to detect the calls and
then fixing the code by hand.

Note that all the changes are only compile tested.

Some Makefiles were changed to allow files to contain strcpy().
As well as 'difficult to fix' files, this included 'show' functions
as they really need to use sysfs_emit() or seq_printf().

All the patches are being sent individually to avoid very long cc lists.
Apologies for the terse commit messages and likely unexpected tags.
(There are about 100 patches in total.)

 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_netdev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_netdev.c
index 3a06e3b1bd6b..f2309e79dab5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_netdev.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 static void ef100_update_name(struct efx_nic *efx)
 {
-	strcpy(efx->name, efx->net_dev->name);
+	strscpy(efx->name, efx->net_dev->name);
 }
 
 static int ef100_alloc_vis(struct efx_nic *efx, unsigned int *allocated_vis)
-- 
2.39.5


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