Re: [PATCH] ACPI / sysfs: Replace deprecated strcpy() with sysfs_emit

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM Brahmajit Das <listout@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> strcpy() is deprecated; use sysfs_emit() instead. No functional changes
> intended.

It may be deprecated, but is it used incorrectly in this particular case?

> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
> Signed-off-by: Brahmajit Das <listout@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
> index a48ebbf768f9..7ce90998ab97 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
> @@ -181,10 +181,9 @@ static int param_set_trace_method_name(const char *val,
>
>         /* This is a hack.  We can't kmalloc in early boot. */
>         if (is_abs_path)
> -               strcpy(trace_method_name, val);
> +               sysfs_emit(trace_method_name, "%s", val);
>         else {
> -               trace_method_name[0] = '\\';
> -               strcpy(trace_method_name+1, val);
> +               sysfs_emit(trace_method_name, "\%s", val);
>         }

The code does strlen() checks before this, I don't think that the
change is an improvement.

>
>         /* Restore the original tracer state */
> --





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