Re: [PATCH v4] drivers/iio: Remove all strcpy() uses

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sun Aug 15 2021 - 10:43:02 EST


On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 10:19:49 +0200
Len Baker <len.baker@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 10:36:18PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 4:55 PM Len Baker <len.baker@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > strcpy() performs no bounds checking on the destination buffer. This
> > > could result in linear overflows beyond the end of the buffer, leading
> > > to all kinds of misbehaviors. So, remove all the uses and add
> > > devm_kstrdup() or devm_kasprintf() instead.
> > >
> > > This patch is an effort to clean up the proliferation of str*()
> > > functions in the kernel and a previous step in the path to remove
> > > the strcpy function from the kernel entirely [1].
> > >
> > > [1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
> >
> > Thank you very much for doing this!
> > Now I like the result,
Agreed and applied to the togreg branch of iio.git, pushed out as testing
for 0-day to poke at it and see if we missed anything.

Thanks,

Jonathan
> > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> Thank you too Andy (and folks) for your help on this.
>
> Regards,
> Len