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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:57:13 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: NitinGote <nitin.r.gote@...el.com>, keescook@...omium.org
Cc: corbet@....net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, apw@...onical.com,
linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] Documentation/checkpatch: Prefer stracpy over
strcpy/strlcpy/strncpy.
On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 16:52 +0530, NitinGote wrote:
> From: Nitin Gote <nitin.r.gote@...el.com>
>
> Added check in checkpatch.pl to deprecate strcpy(), strlcpy() and
> strncpy() in favor of stracpy().
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> +our %deprecated_string_apis = (
> + "strcpy" => "stracpy",
> + "strlcpy" => "stracpy",
> + "strncpy" => "stracpy - for non-NUL-terminated uses, strncpy dest should be __nonstring",
> +);
Maybe:
our %deprecated_string_apis = (
"strcpy" => "stracpy or strscpy",
"strlcpy" => "stracpy or strscpy",
"strncpy" => "stracpy or strscpy - for non-NUL-terminated uses, strncpy dest should be __nonstring",
);
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