[PATCH v3] kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() and memcpy()

From: Thorsten Blum
Date: Thu Aug 14 2025 - 18:02:39 EST


strcpy() is deprecated; use strscpy() and memcpy() instead and remove
several manual NUL-terminations.

In parse_grep(), we can safely use memcpy() because we already know the
length of the source string 'cp' and that it is guaranteed to be
NUL-terminated within the first KDB_GREP_STRLEN bytes.

No functional changes intended.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v3:
- Extract the strscpy() changes into a separate patch and focus on
replacing the deprecated strcpy() calls as suggested by Greg
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250814163237.229544-2-thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx/

Changes in v2:
- Use memcpy() instead of strscpy() in parse_grep() as suggested by Greg
- Compile-tested only so far
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250814120338.219585-2-thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx/
---
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c | 14 +++++---------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
index 7a4d2d4689a5..40de0ece724b 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
@@ -727,14 +727,10 @@ static int kdb_defcmd(int argc, const char **argv)
mp->help = kdb_strdup(argv[3], GFP_KDB);
if (!mp->help)
goto fail_help;
- if (mp->usage[0] == '"') {
- strcpy(mp->usage, argv[2]+1);
- mp->usage[strlen(mp->usage)-1] = '\0';
- }
- if (mp->help[0] == '"') {
- strcpy(mp->help, argv[3]+1);
- mp->help[strlen(mp->help)-1] = '\0';
- }
+ if (mp->usage[0] == '"')
+ strscpy(mp->usage, argv[2] + 1, strlen(argv[2]) - 1);
+ if (mp->help[0] == '"')
+ strscpy(mp->help, argv[3] + 1, strlen(argv[3]) - 1);

INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kdb_macro->statements);
defcmd_in_progress = true;
@@ -860,7 +856,7 @@ static void parse_grep(const char *str)
kdb_printf("search string too long\n");
return;
}
- strcpy(kdb_grep_string, cp);
+ memcpy(kdb_grep_string, cp, len + 1);
kdb_grepping_flag++;
return;
}
--
2.50.1