[PATCH v2] params: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() and memcpy()
From: Thorsten Blum
Date: Wed Aug 13 2025 - 09:25:28 EST
strcpy() is deprecated; use strscpy() and memcpy() instead.
In param_set_copystring(), we can safely use memcpy() because we already
know the length of the source string 'val' and that it is guaranteed to
be NUL-terminated within the first 'kps->maxlen' bytes.
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Use memcpy() in param_set_copystring() as suggested by Petr Pavlu
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250810214456.2236-1-thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx/
---
kernel/params.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index b92d64161b75..b96cfd693c99 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -513,13 +513,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(param_array_ops);
int param_set_copystring(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp)
{
const struct kparam_string *kps = kp->str;
+ const size_t len = strnlen(val, kps->maxlen);
- if (strnlen(val, kps->maxlen) == kps->maxlen) {
+ if (len == kps->maxlen) {
pr_err("%s: string doesn't fit in %u chars.\n",
kp->name, kps->maxlen-1);
return -ENOSPC;
}
- strcpy(kps->string, val);
+ memcpy(kps->string, val, len + 1);
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(param_set_copystring);
@@ -841,7 +842,7 @@ static void __init param_sysfs_builtin(void)
dot = strchr(kp->name, '.');
if (!dot) {
/* This happens for core_param() */
- strcpy(modname, "kernel");
+ strscpy(modname, "kernel");
name_len = 0;
} else {
name_len = dot - kp->name + 1;
--
2.50.1