From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: l2tp_eth: Replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy in l2tp_eth_create
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:18:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aZ1exV5fL88Kdft2@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260223074137.321862-1-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 08:41:34AM +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> strcpy() has been deprecated [1] because it performs no bounds checking
> on the destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Replace
> it with the safer strscpy(). Use the two-argument version of strscpy()
> to copy 'cfg->ifname'.
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-24 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-23 7:41 [PATCH net-next] net: l2tp_eth: Replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy in l2tp_eth_create Thorsten Blum
2026-02-24 8:18 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2026-02-24 12:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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