Using strlcpy fixes this new gcc warning: kernel/trace/blktrace.c: In function ‘do_blk_trace_setup’: kernel/trace/blktrace.c:497:2: warning: ‘strncpy’ specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation] strncpy(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generated by scripts/coccinelle/misc/strncpy_truncation.cocci Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Please see https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=153144450722324&w=2 (the first patch of the serie) for the motivation behind this patch 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 987d9a9ae283..2478d9838eab 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c @@ -494,8 +494,7 @@ 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'; + strlcpy(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE); /* * some device names have larger paths - convert the slashes -- 2.17.1