[PATCH next] fs: Replace strcpy(s, "../") with memcpy(s, "../", 4)
From: david . laight . linux
Date: Sat Jun 06 2026 - 16:32:03 EST
From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
The code has already checked there is enough room.
Use memcpy() to avoid compiler warnings from possibly unbounded strcpy().
Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
---
This is one of a group of patches that remove potentially unbounded
strcpy() calls.
They are mostly replaced by strscpy() or, when strlen() has just been
called, with memcpy() (usually including the '\0').
Calls with copy string literals into arrays are left unchanged.
They are safe and easily detected as such.
The changes were made by getting the compiler to detect the calls and
then fixing the code by hand.
Note that all the changes are only compile tested.
Some Makefiles were changed to allow files to contain strcpy().
As well as 'difficult to fix' files, this included 'show' functions
as they really need to use sysfs_emit() or seq_printf().
All the patches are being sent individually to avoid very long cc lists.
Apologies for the terse commit messages and likely unexpected tags.
(There are about 100 patches in total.)
fs/configfs/symlink.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/configfs/symlink.c b/fs/configfs/symlink.c
index f3f79c67add5..9f36699e5922 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/symlink.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ static int configfs_get_target_path(struct config_item *item,
pr_debug("%s: depth = %d, size = %d\n", __func__, depth, size);
for (s = path; depth--; s += 3)
- strcpy(s,"../");
+ memcpy(s, "../", 4);
fill_item_path(target, path, size);
pr_debug("%s: path = '%s'\n", __func__, path);
--
2.39.5