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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 18:15:37 +0200
From: Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
To: Nitin Gote <nitin.r.gote@...el.com>
Cc: keescook@...omium.org, jannh@...gle.com,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Added warnings in favor of strscpy().
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:25:48 +0530, Nitin Gote <nitin.r.gote@...el.com> wrote:
> 1. Deprecate strcpy() in favor of strscpy().
This isn’t a comment “against” this patch, but something I’ve been wondering
recently and which raises a question about how to handle strcpy’s deprecation
in particular. There is still one scenario where strcpy is useful: when GCC
replaces it with its builtin, inline version...
Would it be worth introducing a macro for strcpy-from-constant-string, which
would check that GCC’s builtin is being used (when building with GCC), and
fall back to strscpy otherwise?
Regards,
Stephen
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