While it is safe to use strncpy in this case, the advice is to move to strscpy_pad[1]. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprec:qated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] Signed-off-by: xueqin Luo <luoxueqin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/acpica/utnonansi.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utnonansi.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utnonansi.c index ff0802ace19b..3a7952be6545 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utnonansi.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utnonansi.c @@ -168,8 +168,7 @@ void acpi_ut_safe_strncpy(char *dest, char *source, acpi_size dest_size) { /* Always terminate destination string */ - strncpy(dest, source, dest_size); - dest[dest_size - 1] = 0; + strscpy_pad(dest, source, dest_size); } #endif -- 2.34.1