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([49.205.39.116]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 98e67ed59e1d1-394ea9a1301sm1372145a91.7.2026.08.13.23.54.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:54:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Ajith P V To: FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de, deller@gmx.de Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ajith P V Subject: [PATCH v2] video: fbdev: via: refactor strcpy and viafb_name Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:54:33 +0000 Message-ID: <20260814065433.269375-1-ajithpv.linux@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Replace the deprecated and unbounded strcpy() function with the safer strscpy() alternative when setting up the framebuffer fixed screen information [1][2]. It aligns this driver with the ongoing kernel-wide security initiative to eliminate unbounded string copies, hardening the code against future modifications. Additionally, convert the file-scope `viafb_name` pointer into a `static const char[]` array and update its value to "viafb". This permits the compiler to execute compile-time bounds checking and aggressively optimize the runtime string copy operation out entirely. This is a proactive API cleanup and there is no functional performance or truncation risk. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy= [1] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88 [2] Signed-off-by: Ajith P V --- v2: - Keep variable static but change it to a const array=20 'static const char viafb_name[] =3D "viafb"' as suggested by Helge Dell= er=20 to let the compiler leverage compile-time checks. drivers/video/fbdev/via/viafbdev.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/via/viafbdev.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/via/v= iafbdev.c index 80f95dac32c8..b3a2e07b61a7 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/via/viafbdev.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/via/viafbdev.c @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ #define _MASTER_FILE #include "global.h" =20 -static char *viafb_name =3D "Via"; +static const char viafb_name[] =3D "viafb"; static u32 pseudo_pal[17]; =20 /* video mode */ @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static void viafb_setup_fixinfo(struct fb_fix_screeninf= o *fix, struct viafb_par *viaparinfo) { memset(fix, 0, sizeof(struct fb_fix_screeninfo)); - strcpy(fix->id, viafb_name); + strscpy(fix->id, viafb_name, sizeof(fix->id)); =20 fix->smem_start =3D viaparinfo->fbmem; fix->smem_len =3D viaparinfo->fbmem_free; --=20 2.43.0