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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:18:13 +0000
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
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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>