Commit 2bdc2c0e authored Dec 04, 2025 by Madhur Kumar Committed by Lyude Paul Dec 05, 2025

drm/nouveau: refactor deprecated strcpy



strcpy() has been deprecated because it performs no bounds checking on the
destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Use the safer
strscpy() instead.

Signed-off-by: Madhur Kumar <madhurkumar004@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Fixes: 15a996bb ("drm/nouveau: assign fence_chan->name correctly")
Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251204120822.17502-1-madhurkumar004@gmail.com

parent 479acb9d

drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c

+3 −3

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		@@ -183,11 +183,11 @@ nouveau_fence_context_new(struct nouveau_channel *chan, struct nouveau_fence_cha
		fctx->context = drm->runl[chan->runlist].context_base + chan->chid;

		if (chan == drm->cechan)
		strcpy(fctx->name, "copy engine channel");
		strscpy(fctx->name, "copy engine channel");
		else if (chan == drm->channel)
		strcpy(fctx->name, "generic kernel channel");
		strscpy(fctx->name, "generic kernel channel");
		else
		strcpy(fctx->name, cli->name);
		strscpy(fctx->name, cli->name);

		kref_init(&fctx->fence_ref);
		if (!priv->uevent)