From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 23:14:31 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: checkpatch: prefer strscpy to strlcpy
X-Git-Tag: microblaze-v5.13~452^2~12
X-Git-Url: http://git.monstr.eu/?p=linux-2.6-microblaze.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=5dbdb2d87c294401a22e6a6002f08ebc9fbea38b

checkpatch: prefer strscpy to strlcpy

Prefer strscpy over the deprecated strlcpy function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/19fe91084890e2c16fe56f960de6c570a93fa99b.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Requested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 00085308ed9d..92e888ed939f 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6646,6 +6646,12 @@ sub process {
 #			}
 #		}
 
+# strlcpy uses that should likely be strscpy
+		if ($line =~ /\bstrlcpy\s*\(/) {
+			WARN("STRLCPY",
+			     "Prefer strscpy over strlcpy - see: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw\@mail.gmail.com/\n" . $herecurr);
+		}
+
 # typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
 		if ($perl_version_ok &&
 		    defined $stat &&