From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> gcc-9 warns about a possibly non-terminated string copy: kernel/trace/blktrace.c: In function 'do_blk_trace_setup': kernel/trace/blktrace.c:527:2: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation] Newer versions are fine here because they see the following explicit nul-termination. Using strscpy_pad() avoids the warning and simplifies the code a little. The padding helps give a clean buffer to userspace. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- v2: actually use padding version of strscpy. --- kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c index d5d94510afd3..8fd292d34d89 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c @@ -524,8 +524,7 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev, if (!buts->buf_size || !buts->buf_nr) return -EINVAL; - strncpy(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE); - buts->name[BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE - 1] = '\0'; + strscpy_pad(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE); /* * some device names have larger paths - convert the slashes -- 2.39.2