Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy

[Daniel Yang]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 5:24 PM Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2024/11/9 9:38, Daniel Yang wrote:
> > strcpy is deprecated. Kernel docs recommend replacing strcpy with
> > strscpy. The function strcpy() return value isn't used so there
> > shouldn't be an issue replacing with the safer alternative strscpy.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Yang <danielyangkang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > V1 -> V2: handle strscpy errors, changed prefix to f2fs
> >
> >   fs/f2fs/super.c | 11 +++++++++--
> >   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
> > index 87ab5696b..4721a8a8f 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
> > @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
> >    * Copyright (c) 2012 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
> >    *             http://www.samsung.com/
> >    */
> >   #include <linux/module.h>
> >   #include <linux/init.h>
> >   #include <linux/fs.h>
> > @@ -1158,7 +1159,10 @@ static int parse_options(struct super_block *sb, char *options, bool is_remount)
> >                               break;
> >                       }
> >
> > -                     strcpy(ext[ext_cnt], name);
> > +                     if (strscpy(ext[ext_cnt], name) == -E2BIG) {
> > +                             kfree(name);
> > +                             return -EINVAL;
>
> How about?
>
> ret = strscpy(ext[ext_cnt], name);
> if (ret < 0) {
>         kfree(name);
>         return ret;
> }
>
> > +                     }
> >                       F2FS_OPTION(sbi).compress_ext_cnt++;
> >                       kfree(name);
> >                       break;
> > @@ -1187,7 +1191,10 @@ static int parse_options(struct super_block *sb, char *options, bool is_remount)
> >                               break;
> >                       }
> >
> > -                     strcpy(noext[noext_cnt], name);
> > +                     if (strscpy(noext[noext_cnt], name) == -E2BIG) {
> > +                             kfree(name);
> > +                             return -EINVAL;
> > +                     }
>
> Ditto
>
> Thanks,
>
> >                       F2FS_OPTION(sbi).nocompress_ext_cnt++;
> >                       kfree(name);
> >                       break;
>

Thanks for the feedback. That does look much cleaner. I've applied the
changes and sent v3.

- Daniel