From: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] EDAC/mc: Prefer strscpy over strcpy
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:36:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210827173633.GA3040@titan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YSU5wp/ZpsXuDgmu@zn.tnic>
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 08:26:10PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 12:28:07PM +0200, Len Baker wrote:
> > This is a task of the KSPP [1] and the main reason is to clean up the
> > proliferation of str*cpy functions in the kernel.
>
> That I understood - you prominently explain where the patches stem from.
>
> What I can't parse is that formulation "previous step". What previous
> step do you mean?
Well, the main purpose is to clean up the proliferation of str*cpy functions.
One task is to remove the strcpy uses: The first step (previous step) would
be to remove all the strcpy uses. Then, as a second step remove all the
strcpy implementations.
I hope that this clarify your question.
Regards,
Len
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-27 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-14 7:55 [PATCH v4] EDAC/mc: Prefer strscpy over strcpy Len Baker
2021-08-23 17:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-24 10:28 ` Len Baker
2021-08-24 18:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-24 19:05 ` Joe Perches
2021-08-25 8:48 ` David Laight
2021-08-27 17:36 ` Len Baker [this message]
2021-08-27 17:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-27 19:08 ` Joe Perches
2021-08-29 16:14 ` Len Baker
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