sound/drivers/pcmtest.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
strcpy() has been deprecated [1] because it performs no bounds checking
on the destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Replace
it with the safer strscpy_pad(), and use kmalloc() instead of kzalloc()
because strscpy_pad() zero-pads the destination buffer and therefore
avoids writing to it twice.
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
sound/drivers/pcmtest.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/drivers/pcmtest.c b/sound/drivers/pcmtest.c
index 19b3f306c564..b8474631f0b5 100644
--- a/sound/drivers/pcmtest.c
+++ b/sound/drivers/pcmtest.c
@@ -696,10 +696,10 @@ static int setup_patt_bufs(void)
size_t i;
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(patt_bufs); i++) {
- patt_bufs[i].buf = kzalloc(MAX_PATTERN_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
+ patt_bufs[i].buf = kmalloc(MAX_PATTERN_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!patt_bufs[i].buf)
break;
- strcpy(patt_bufs[i].buf, DEFAULT_PATTERN);
+ strscpy_pad(patt_bufs[i].buf, DEFAULT_PATTERN, MAX_PATTERN_LEN);
patt_bufs[i].len = DEFAULT_PATTERN_LEN;
}
--
2.51.1
On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:52:17 +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote: > > strcpy() has been deprecated [1] because it performs no bounds checking > on the destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Replace > it with the safer strscpy_pad(), and use kmalloc() instead of kzalloc() > because strscpy_pad() zero-pads the destination buffer and therefore > avoids writing to it twice. > > Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1] > Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> Applied to for-next branch now. Thanks. Takashi
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