> Author: se
> Date: Sat Jan 26 21:30:26 2019
> New Revision: 343480
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/343480
> 
> Log:
>   Silence Clang Scan warning about potentially unsafe use of strcpy.
>   
>   While this is a false positive, the use of strdup() simplifies the code.

Though that might be true, it also has to recalculate the
length of the string which was already known by slen.

I am not sure how often this code is called,
but that is wasted cycles in a library.

>   
>   MFC after:  2 weeks
> 
> Modified:
>   head/lib/libfigpar/string_m.c
> 
> Modified: head/lib/libfigpar/string_m.c
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/lib/libfigpar/string_m.c     Sat Jan 26 20:43:28 2019        
> (r343479)
> +++ head/lib/libfigpar/string_m.c     Sat Jan 26 21:30:26 2019        
> (r343480)
> @@ -119,10 +119,9 @@ replaceall(char *source, const char *find, const char 
>  
>       /* If replace is longer than find, we'll need to create a temp copy */
>       if (rlen > flen) {
> -             temp = malloc(slen + 1);
> -             if (errno != 0) /* could not allocate memory */
> +             temp = strdup(source);
> +             if (temp == NULL) /* could not allocate memory */
>                       return (-1);
> -             strcpy(temp, source);
>       } else
>               temp = source;
>  
> 
> 

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgri...@freebsd.org
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