[PATCH v2] drm/nouveau : refactor deprecated strcpy

From: Madhur Kumar

Date: Thu Dec 04 2025 - 07:08:31 EST


strcpy() has been deprecated because it performs no bounds checking on the
destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Use the safer
strscpy() instead.

Signed-off-by: Madhur Kumar <madhurkumar004@xxxxxxxxx>
---
changes in v2:
- Remove the size parameter from strscpy

drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
index 869d4335c0f4..4a193b7d6d9e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
@@ -183,11 +183,11 @@ nouveau_fence_context_new(struct nouveau_channel *chan, struct nouveau_fence_cha
fctx->context = drm->runl[chan->runlist].context_base + chan->chid;

if (chan == drm->cechan)
- strcpy(fctx->name, "copy engine channel");
+ strscpy(fctx->name, "copy engine channel");
else if (chan == drm->channel)
- strcpy(fctx->name, "generic kernel channel");
+ strscpy(fctx->name, "generic kernel channel");
else
- strcpy(fctx->name, cli->name);
+ strscpy(fctx->name, cli->name);

kref_init(&fctx->fence_ref);
if (!priv->uevent)
--
2.52.0