Re: [PATCH] accessibility: speakup: refactor deprecated strcpy

Ajith P V, le ven. 07 août 2026 11:10:58 +0000, a ecrit:
> strcpy() is deprecated, use strscpy() instead.
> 
> As strcpy() performs no bounds checking on the destination buffer. This
> could result in buffer overflow. The safe replacement is strscpy() [1][2].
> 
> 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 <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Samuel thibault <[email protected]>

> ---
>  drivers/accessibility/speakup/varhandlers.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/accessibility/speakup/varhandlers.c b/drivers/accessibility/speakup/varhandlers.c
> index 462f8d879053..c6d3b4cc1af8 100644
> --- a/drivers/accessibility/speakup/varhandlers.c
> +++ b/drivers/accessibility/speakup/varhandlers.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>  #include <linux/ctype.h>
> +#include <linux/string.h>
>  #include "spk_types.h"
>  #include "spk_priv.h"
>  #include "speakup.h"
> @@ -265,10 +266,10 @@ int spk_set_string_var(const char *page, struct st_var_header *var, int len)
>  		if (!var->p_val)
>  			var->p_val = var_data->u.s.default_val;
>  		if (var->p_val != var_data->u.s.default_val)
> -			strcpy((char *)var->p_val, var_data->u.s.default_val);
> +			strscpy((char *)var->p_val, var_data->u.s.default_val, MAXVARLEN + 1);
>  		return -ERESTART;
>  	} else if (var->p_val) {
> -		strcpy((char *)var->p_val, page);
> +		strscpy((char *)var->p_val, page, MAXVARLEN + 1);
>  	} else {
>  		return -E2BIG;
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.43.0