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| -rwxr-xr-x | tools/checkpatch.pl | 29 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/checkpatch.pl b/tools/checkpatch.pl index 77e6e9a330..1b48d10a09 100755 --- a/tools/checkpatch.pl +++ b/tools/checkpatch.pl @@ -6347,6 +6347,35 @@ sub process { "Please, only use 32 bit atomics.\n" . $herecurr); } +# check for use of strcpy() + if ($line =~ /\bstrcpy\s*\(.*\)/) { + ERROR("STRCPY", + "strcpy() is error-prone; please use strlcpy()" . $herecurr); + } + +# check for use of strncpy() + if ($line =~ /\bstrncpy\s*\(.*\)/) { + WARN("STRNCPY", + "strncpy() is error-prone; please use strlcpy() if possible, or memcpy()" . $herecurr); + } + +# check for use of strcat() + if ($line =~ /\bstrcat\s*\(.*\)/) { + ERROR("STRCAT", + "strcat() is error-prone; please use strlcat() if possible" . $herecurr); + } + +# check for use of strncat() + if ($line =~ /\bstrncat\s*\(.*\)/) { + WARN("STRNCAT", + "strncat() is error-prone; please use strlcat() if possible" . $herecurr); + } + +# check for use of bzero() + if ($line =~ /\bbzero\s*\(.*\)/) { + ERROR("BZERO", + "bzero() is deprecated; use memset()" . $herecurr); + } } # If we have no input at all, then there is nothing to report on |