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[net-next,v2,4/6] net/netfilter: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy

Message ID 20240828123224.3697672-5-lihongbo22@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State Awaiting Upstream
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Series replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy | expand

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Commit Message

Hongbo Li Aug. 28, 2024, 12:32 p.m. UTC
The deprecated helper strcpy() performs no bounds checking on the
destination buffer. This could result in linear overflows beyond
the end of the buffer, leading to all kinds of misbehaviors.
The safe replacement is strscpy() [1].

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]

Signed-off-by: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com>
---
 net/netfilter/xt_recent.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c b/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c
index 588a5e6ad899..6b7d6978713f 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@  static int recent_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par,
 	t->nstamps_max_mask = nstamp_mask;
 
 	memcpy(&t->mask, &info->mask, sizeof(t->mask));
-	strcpy(t->name, info->name);
+	strscpy(t->name, info->name);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&t->lru_list);
 	for (i = 0; i < ip_list_hash_size; i++)
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&t->iphash[i]);