Re: [PATCH] fbdev: platinumfb: replace strcpy with strscpy
yuebingkun <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 17 Aug 2026, David Laight wrote: > There is no point using strscpy() to copy quoted strings into arrays. > Indeed, if the string is too long the kernel build will fail if strcpy() > is used but strscpy() will silently truncate the strings. > So strscpy() is actually worse here. Thank you for the explanation. You are right, for copying a known string literal into a fixed-size array, strcpy() is actually safer because the compiler can catch overflow at build time. I will drop this patch. ---