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From: Simon Horman

Date: Tue Feb 24 2026 - 03:21:02 EST

On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 08:41:34AM +0100, 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(). Use the two-argument version of strscpy()
> to copy 'cfg->ifname'.
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>