net/ipv6: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy

The deprecated helper strcpy() performs no bounds checking on the
destination buffer. This could result in linear overflows beyond
the end of the buffer, leading to all kinds of misbehaviors.
The safe replacement is strscpy() [1].

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy
Signed-off-by: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240828123224.3697672-3-lihongbo22@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
index 1e42e40..aba94a3 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -1944,7 +1944,7 @@ static void ndisc_warn_deprecated_sysctl(const struct ctl_table *ctl,
        static char warncomm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
        static int warned;
        if (strcmp(warncomm, current->comm) && warned < 5) {
-               strcpy(warncomm, current->comm);
+               strscpy(warncomm, current->comm);
                pr_warn("process `%s' is using deprecated sysctl (%s) net.ipv6.neigh.%s.%s - use net.ipv6.neigh.%s.%s_ms instead\n",
                        warncomm, func,
                        dev_name, ctl->procname,