On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 11:30 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > Most of the uses of strcpy() in the kernel are just copying between two > known-at-compile-time NUL-terminated character arrays. We had wanted to > introduce stracpy() for this, but Linus objected to yet more string > functions.
https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/[email protected]/T/ I still think stracpy is a good idea. Maybe when the strcpy/strlcpy uses are removed it'll be more acceptable. And here's a cocci script to convert most of them. https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/[email protected]/
