Re: [PATCH] tracing: Replace deprecated strncpy() with memcpy() for stack_trace_filter_buf

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri,  4 Apr 2025 00:43:40 +0530
Devaansh Kumar <devaanshk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> @@ -537,14 +538,16 @@ stack_trace_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write, 
> void *buffer,
>       return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static char stack_trace_filter_buf[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE+1] __initdata;
> +static char stack_trace_filter_buf[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE+1] __initdata 
> __nonstring;
>  
>  static __init int enable_stacktrace(char *str)
>  {
>       int len;
>  
> -     if ((len = str_has_prefix(str, "_filter=")))
> -             strncpy(stack_trace_filter_buf, str + len, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
> +     len = str_has_prefix(str, "_filter=");
> +
> +     if (len)
> +             memcpy(stack_trace_filter_buf, str + len, 
> sizeof(stack_trace_filter_buf));

Hmm, this location looks like it can just use strscpy().

-- Steve


>  
>       stack_tracer_enabled = 1;
>       return 1;
> --