[PATCH v2] staging: android: Replace strcpy with strlcpy

From	simran singhal <singhalsimran0@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH v2] staging: android: Replace strcpy with strlcpy
Date	2017-03-11 22:20 +0100
Message-ID	<tjWAG-8vE-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Replace strcpy with strlcpy as strcpy does not check for buffer
overflow.
This is found using Flawfinder.

Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@gmail.com>
---

 v2:
   -Correcting the place of the parenthesis
 
 drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
index 7cbad0d..eb2f4ef 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
@@ -548,7 +548,8 @@ static int set_name(struct ashmem_area *asma, void __user *name)
 	if (unlikely(asma->file))
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 	else
-		strcpy(asma->name + ASHMEM_NAME_PREFIX_LEN, local_name);
+		strlcpy(asma->name + ASHMEM_NAME_PREFIX_LEN, local_name,
+			sizeof(asma->name + ASHMEM_NAME_PREFIX_LEN));
 
 	mutex_unlock(&ashmem_mutex);
 	return ret;
-- 
2.7.4

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[PATCH v2] staging: android: Replace strcpy with strlcpy simran singhal <singhalsimran0@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 22:20 +0100
  Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] staging: android: Replace strcpy  with strlcpy Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> - 2017-03-11 22:30 +0100
    Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] staging: android: Replace strcpy  with strlcpy Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> - 2017-03-11 22:40 +0100
    Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] staging: android: Replace strcpy  with strlcpy SIMRAN SINGHAL <singhalsimran0@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 22:40 +0100

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