[PATCH] fanotify: replace deprecated strcpy in fanotify_info_copy_{name,name2}
From: Thorsten Blum
Date: Sat Mar 21 2026 - 17:07:10 EST
strcpy() has been deprecated [1] because it performs no bounds checking
on the destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Replace
it with the safer strscpy().
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h
index 39e60218df7c..a0619e7694d5 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
#include <linux/fsnotify_backend.h>
#include <linux/path.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/exportfs.h>
#include <linux/hashtable.h>
@@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ static inline void fanotify_info_copy_name(struct fanotify_info *info,
return;
info->name_len = name->len;
- strcpy(fanotify_info_name(info), name->name);
+ strscpy(fanotify_info_name(info), name->name, name->len + 1);
}
static inline void fanotify_info_copy_name2(struct fanotify_info *info,
@@ -228,7 +229,7 @@ static inline void fanotify_info_copy_name2(struct fanotify_info *info,
return;
info->name2_len = name->len;
- strcpy(fanotify_info_name2(info), name->name);
+ strscpy(fanotify_info_name2(info), name->name, name->len + 1);
}
/*