On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 12:51:05AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote: > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]. > > We should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces. > > `buf` is expected to be NUL-terminated for its eventual use in > `kstrtoul()` and NUL-padding is not required. > > Due to the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the > fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer. > > Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] > Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2] > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 > Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Note: build-tested only. Reviewed and tested on dh895xcc, the only device impacted by this change. All good. Thanks, -- Giovanni
