Re: [PATCH] scsi: qla2xxx: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

From: Azeem Shaikh
Date: Wed May 17 2023 - 10:11:47 EST


On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 9:42 PM Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Azeem,
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> > strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first. This read may exceed
> > the destination size limit. This is both inefficient and can lead to
> > linear read overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1]. In
> > an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace strlcpy() here
> > with strscpy(). No return values were used, so direct replacement is
> > safe.
>
> Applied to 6.5/scsi-staging, thanks!
>

Thanks a lot for the quick response Martin (on this and other patches
too). Just for my understanding, do you mind pointing me to the
6.5/scsi-staging tree?