Re: [PATCH 3/4] Updating a deprecated use of strcpy in battry.c file.

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Aug 02 2024 - 10:19:38 EST


On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 10:11 AM Muhammad Qasim Abdul Majeed
<qasim.majeed20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Replacing strcpy with strscpy.
> strcpy is a deprecated function.
> It should be removed from the kernel source.
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
>
> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Qasim Abdul Majeed <qasim.majeed20@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/battery.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> index b379401ff1c2..784f9234f1a4 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> @@ -1193,8 +1193,8 @@ static int acpi_battery_add(struct acpi_device *device)
> if (!battery)
> return -ENOMEM;
> battery->device = device;
> - strcpy(acpi_device_name(device), ACPI_BATTERY_DEVICE_NAME);
> - strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ACPI_BATTERY_CLASS);
> + strscpy(acpi_device_name(device), ACPI_BATTERY_DEVICE_NAME);
> + strscpy(acpi_device_class(device), ACPI_BATTERY_CLASS);
> device->driver_data = battery;
> mutex_init(&battery->lock);
> mutex_init(&battery->sysfs_lock);
> --

Applied as 6.12 material with edited subject and changelog, thanks!