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SubjectRe: [PATCH 15/20] ALSA: usb-audio: Manual replacement of the deprecated strlcpy() with return values
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:12:26 +0100,
Romain Perier wrote:
>
> The strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first, it is dangerous if
> the source buffer lenght is unbounded or possibility non NULL-terminated.
> It can lead to linear read overflows, crashes, etc...
>
> As recommended in the deprecated interfaces [1], it should be replaced
> by strscpy.
>
> This commit replaces all calls to strlcpy that handle the return values
> by the corresponding strscpy calls with new handling of the return
> values (as it is quite different between the two functions).
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
>
> Signed-off-by: Romain Perier <romain.perier@gmail.com>

The strlcpy() usage in sound/* have been already converted on the
latest Linus tree. So please drop this one.


thanks,

Takashi

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