It's detected by coverity. As max of sockaddr_un.sun_path is sizeof(helper.sun_path), should check the length of source and use strncpy instead of strcpy.
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <zhaoshengl...@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.z...@linaro.org> --- hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c index 59c7445..fb1ab7b 100644 --- a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c +++ b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c @@ -1102,12 +1102,13 @@ static int connect_namedsocket(const char *path) int sockfd, size; struct sockaddr_un helper; + g_assert(strlen(path) < sizeof(helper.sun_path)); sockfd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0); if (sockfd < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "failed to create socket: %s\n", strerror(errno)); return -1; } - strcpy(helper.sun_path, path); + strncpy(helper.sun_path, path, sizeof(helper.sun_path)); helper.sun_family = AF_UNIX; size = strlen(helper.sun_path) + sizeof(helper.sun_family); if (connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&helper, size) < 0) { -- 1.8.3.1