Re: [PATCH 3/3] ecryptfs: Replace strcpy with strscpy in ecryptfs_validate_options
From: Tyler Hicks
Date: Tue Dec 23 2025 - 16:00:23 EST
On 2025-12-13 12:04:54, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> strcpy() has been deprecated [1] because it performs no bounds checking
> on the destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Replace
> it with the safer strscpy().
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tyler Hicks <code@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ecryptfs/main.c | 9 +++++----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
> index 16ea14dd2c62..636aff7a48cf 100644
> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
> #include <linux/fs_stack.h>
> #include <linux/sysfs.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/string.h>
> #include <linux/magic.h>
> #include "ecryptfs_kernel.h"
>
> @@ -353,13 +354,13 @@ static int ecryptfs_validate_options(struct fs_context *fc)
> int cipher_name_len = strlen(ECRYPTFS_DEFAULT_CIPHER);
>
> BUG_ON(cipher_name_len > ECRYPTFS_MAX_CIPHER_NAME_SIZE);
> - strcpy(mount_crypt_stat->global_default_cipher_name,
> - ECRYPTFS_DEFAULT_CIPHER);
> + strscpy(mount_crypt_stat->global_default_cipher_name,
> + ECRYPTFS_DEFAULT_CIPHER);
> }
> if ((mount_crypt_stat->flags & ECRYPTFS_GLOBAL_ENCRYPT_FILENAMES)
> && !ctx->fn_cipher_name_set)
> - strcpy(mount_crypt_stat->global_default_fn_cipher_name,
> - mount_crypt_stat->global_default_cipher_name);
> + strscpy(mount_crypt_stat->global_default_fn_cipher_name,
> + mount_crypt_stat->global_default_cipher_name);
> if (!ctx->cipher_key_bytes_set)
> mount_crypt_stat->global_default_cipher_key_size = 0;
> if ((mount_crypt_stat->flags & ECRYPTFS_GLOBAL_ENCRYPT_FILENAMES)
> --
> Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
> GPG: 1D60 735E 8AEF 3BE4 73B6 9D84 7336 78FD 8DFE EAD4
>