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checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
authorSuchit Karunakaran <suchitkarunakaran@gmail.com>
Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:17:21 +0000 (22:47 +0530)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:36:13 +0000 (11:36 -0700)
commit99b70ece33d87500ef7bee8e32cb99772c45ce14
treea860e92b4ff8c8382fe2a1034979c0d19e1fc064
parent20a8e0454d833d80d0c0cae304841a50a2a126bd
checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools

The checkpatch.pl script currently warns against the use of strcpy,
strlcpy, and strncpy, recommending strscpy as a safer alternative.
However, these warnings are also triggered for code under tools/ and
scripts/, which are userspace utilities where strscpy is not available.
This patch suppresses these warnings for files in tools/ and scripts/.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250923171722.7798-1-suchitkarunakaran@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Suchit Karunakaran <suchitkarunakaran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/checkpatch.pl