Jeff King <[email protected]> writes:
> This strcpy will never overflow because it's copying from
> baked-in test data. But we would prefer to avoid strcpy
> entirely, as it makes it harder to audit for real security
> bugs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
> ---
> Repost of <[email protected]> from a few weeks
> ago (sorry, gmane is down so I can't generate a link). I think the
> original was never applied because the topic that introduced the strcpy
> (js/dirname-basename) predated xsnprintf, so there was some merging
> complexity. Now that topic is in master, so this can be applied there.
Thanks. This kind of considerate "holding it off for a few weeks"
helps things a lot.
>
> test-path-utils.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/test-path-utils.c b/test-path-utils.c
> index c3adcd8..6232dfe 100644
> --- a/test-path-utils.c
> +++ b/test-path-utils.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static int test_function(struct test_data *data, char
> *(*func)(char *input),
> if (!data[i].from)
> to = func(NULL);
> else {
> - strcpy(buffer, data[i].from);
> + xsnprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%s", data[i].from);
> to = func(buffer);
> }
> if (!strcmp(to, data[i].to))
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