Updating a deprecated use of strcpy in ac.c file.

[PATCH] Updating a deprecated use of strcpy in ac.c file.

Posted by Muhammad Qasim Abdul Majeed 1 year, 7 months ago

Replacing strcpy with strscpy.
strcpy is a deprecated function.
It should be removed from the kernel source.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88

Signed-off-by: Muhammad Qasim Abdul Majeed <qasim.majeed20@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/ac.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ac.c b/drivers/acpi/ac.c
index 09a87fa222c7..ad1427a384e4 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/ac.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ac.c
@@ -213,8 +213,8 @@ static int acpi_ac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	ac->device = adev;
-	strcpy(acpi_device_name(adev), ACPI_AC_DEVICE_NAME);
-	strcpy(acpi_device_class(adev), ACPI_AC_CLASS);
+	strscpy(acpi_device_name(adev), ACPI_AC_DEVICE_NAME);
+	strscpy(acpi_device_class(adev), ACPI_AC_CLASS);
 
 	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ac);
 
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [PATCH] Updating a deprecated use of strcpy in ac.c file.

Posted by Rafael J. Wysocki 1 year, 6 months ago

On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 9:48 AM Muhammad Qasim Abdul Majeed
<qasim.majeed20@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Replacing strcpy with strscpy.
> strcpy is a deprecated function.
> It should be removed from the kernel source.
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
>
> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Qasim Abdul Majeed <qasim.majeed20@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/ac.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ac.c b/drivers/acpi/ac.c
> index 09a87fa222c7..ad1427a384e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/ac.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/ac.c
> @@ -213,8 +213,8 @@ static int acpi_ac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>
>         ac->device = adev;
> -       strcpy(acpi_device_name(adev), ACPI_AC_DEVICE_NAME);
> -       strcpy(acpi_device_class(adev), ACPI_AC_CLASS);
> +       strscpy(acpi_device_name(adev), ACPI_AC_DEVICE_NAME);
> +       strscpy(acpi_device_class(adev), ACPI_AC_CLASS);
>
>         platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ac);
>
> --

Please see this commit:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git/commit/?h=bleeding-edge&id=142acc42a7443f377b1a452ce906dc3adec91f70

and format the subjects and changelogs of all of your ACPI patches
that replace strcpy() with strscpy() in analogy with it.

Thanks!