Re: [PATCH] drivers/input: Remove all strcpy() uses in favor of strscpy()

[Len Baker]

Hi,

On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 08:17:39AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-08-07 at 16:02 +0200, Len Baker wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 09:44:33AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> []
> > > One thing is clear: replacing strlcpy() with strscpy() is probably the
> > > easiest and best first step to cleaning up the proliferation of str*()
> > > functions.
> >
> > Thanks for all this info. I will work on it (clean up the proliferation
> > of str*() functions).
>
> btw:
>
> It's not possible to sed as the return value is different,
> but here is a cocci script that converts strlcpy to strscpy
> when the return value is unused.
>
>     @@
>     expression e1, e2, e3;
>     @@
>
>     -       strlcpy(
>     +       strscpy(
>             e1, e2, e3);
>
> This cocci script was used on sound/ awhile back.
> see commit 75b1a8f9d62e.

Thanks a lot for your help on this. I will take into account all this info.

Regards,
Len