[PATCH] media: verisilicon: Replace strlcat() with seq_buf

[Hans Verkuil]

On 08/11/2026 21:08, David Laight wrote:
> On Thu,  5 Nov 2026 00:45:18 -0800
> Mariia Nikitash <nikitash.mariiaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> In preparation for removing the deprecated strlcat() API[1], replace
>> the strscpy() and strlcat() calls with seq_buf operations when
>> constructing Hantro video device names.
>>
>> This preserves the resulting strings, including truncation
>> when the compatible string and suffix exceed the destination
>> buffer's capacity.
> 
> This is just stupid...
> 
> David
> 
>>
>> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/370 [1]
>> Signed-off-by: Mariia Nikitash <nikitash.mariiaw at gmail.com>

Nacked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco at kernel.org>

Just use scnprintf.

Regards,

	Hans

>> ---
>>  drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/hantro_drv.c | 11 ++++++++---
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/hantro_drv.c b/drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/hantro_drv.c
>> index 26e5d5547466..2bfcd45cc55e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/hantro_drv.c
>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/hantro_drv.c
>> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
>>  #include <linux/platform_device.h>
>>  #include <linux/pm.h>
>>  #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
>> +#include <linux/seq_buf.h>
>>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>>  #include <linux/videodev2.h>
>>  #include <linux/workqueue.h>
>> @@ -883,6 +884,7 @@ static int hantro_add_func(struct hantro_dev *vpu, unsigned int funcid)
>>  	const struct of_device_id *match;
>>  	struct hantro_func *func;
>>  	struct video_device *vfd;
>> +	struct seq_buf s;
>>  	int ret;
>>  
>>  	match = of_match_node(of_hantro_match, vpu->dev->of_node);
>> @@ -902,9 +904,12 @@ static int hantro_add_func(struct hantro_dev *vpu, unsigned int funcid)
>>  	vfd->vfl_dir = VFL_DIR_M2M;
>>  	vfd->device_caps = V4L2_CAP_STREAMING | V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_M2M_MPLANE;
>>  	vfd->ioctl_ops = &hantro_ioctl_ops;
>> -	strscpy(vfd->name, match->compatible, sizeof(vfd->name));
>> -	strlcat(vfd->name, funcid == MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_ENCODER ?
>> -		"-enc" : "-dec", sizeof(vfd->name));
>> +
>> +	seq_buf_init(&s, vfd->name, sizeof(vfd->name));
>> +	seq_buf_puts(&s, match->compatible);
>> +	seq_buf_puts(&s, funcid == MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_ENCODER ?
>> +			"-enc" : "-dec");
>> +	seq_buf_terminate(&s);
>>  
>>  	if (funcid == MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_ENCODER) {
>>  		vpu->encoder = func;
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