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* [PATCH net-next] net/devlink: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays
@ 2026-06-08  9:54 david.laight.linux
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: david.laight.linux @ 2026-06-08  9:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kees Cook, linux-hardening, linux-kernel, netdev
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
	Jiri Pirko, Paolo Abeni, David Laight

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

Replacing strcpy() with strscpy() ensures that overflow of the target
buffer cannot happen.

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.)

 net/devlink/param.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/devlink/param.c b/net/devlink/param.c
index cf95268da5b0..dba0a0431052 100644
--- a/net/devlink/param.c
+++ b/net/devlink/param.c
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ devlink_param_value_get_from_info(const struct devlink_param *param,
 		if (len == nla_len(param_data) ||
 		    len >= __DEVLINK_PARAM_MAX_STRING_VALUE)
 			return -EINVAL;
-		strcpy(value->vstr, nla_data(param_data));
+		strscpy(value->vstr, nla_data(param_data));
 		break;
 	case DEVLINK_PARAM_TYPE_BOOL:
 		if (param_data && nla_len(param_data))
-- 
2.39.5


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* [PATCH net-next] net/devlink: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays
@ 2026-06-08  9:54 david.laight.linux
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: david.laight.linux @ 2026-06-08  9:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kees Cook, linux-hardening, linux-kernel, netdev
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
	Jiri Pirko, Paolo Abeni, David Laight

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

Replacing strcpy() with strscpy() ensures that overflow of the target
buffer cannot happen.

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.)

 net/devlink/port.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/devlink/port.c b/net/devlink/port.c
index 485029d43428..108926d3f899 100644
--- a/net/devlink/port.c
+++ b/net/devlink/port.c
@@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ static void __devlink_port_type_set(struct devlink_port *devlink_port,
 			devlink_port->type_eth.ifindex = netdev->ifindex;
 			BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(devlink_port->type_eth.ifname) !=
 				     sizeof(netdev->name));
-			strcpy(devlink_port->type_eth.ifname, netdev->name);
+			strscpy(devlink_port->type_eth.ifname, netdev->name);
 		}
 		break;
 	case DEVLINK_PORT_TYPE_IB:
-- 
2.39.5


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