[PATCH v2] video: fbdev: via: refactor strcpy and viafb_name

From: Ajith P V

Date: Fri Aug 14 2026 - 02:54:53 EST


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 <ajithpv.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- Keep variable static but change it to a const array
'static const char viafb_name[] = "viafb"' as suggested by Helge Deller
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/viafbdev.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"

-static char *viafb_name = "Via";
+static const char viafb_name[] = "viafb";
static u32 pseudo_pal[17];

/* video mode */
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static void viafb_setup_fixinfo(struct fb_fix_screeninfo *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));

fix->smem_start = viaparinfo->fbmem;
fix->smem_len = viaparinfo->fbmem_free;
--
2.43.0