[PATCH] riscv: kgdb: Prefer strscpy instead of strcpy

Miquel Sabaté Solà mikisabate at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 13:06:44 PDT 2025


As pointed out in [1], strcpy() is deprecated in favor of strscpy().

[1] KSPP#88

Signed-off-by: Miquel Sabaté Solà <mikisabate at gmail.com>
---
 arch/riscv/kernel/kgdb.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/kgdb.c
index 9f3db3503dab..945f82a72954 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -265,10 +265,10 @@ void kgdb_arch_handle_qxfer_pkt(char *remcom_in_buffer,
 {
 	if (!strncmp(remcom_in_buffer, gdb_xfer_read_target,
 		     sizeof(gdb_xfer_read_target)))
-		strcpy(remcom_out_buffer, riscv_gdb_stub_target_desc);
+		strscpy(remcom_out_buffer, riscv_gdb_stub_target_desc);
 	else if (!strncmp(remcom_in_buffer, gdb_xfer_read_cpuxml,
 			  sizeof(gdb_xfer_read_cpuxml)))
-		strcpy(remcom_out_buffer, riscv_gdb_stub_cpuxml);
+		strscpy(remcom_out_buffer, riscv_gdb_stub_cpuxml);
 }
 
 static inline void kgdb_arch_update_addr(struct pt_regs *regs,
-- 
2.51.0




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