Use strlcpy instead of strncpy to avoid gcc 8 warning: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 16 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation] The maximum length of the source string including terminating null is 5. Hence it always fits in the destination buffer of length 16. Signed-off-by: Michael Straube <straube.linux@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c index 80ccd19e776d..0f82a8c330f8 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c @@ -1912,7 +1912,7 @@ static int rtw_wx_set_enc_ext(struct net_device *dev, goto exit; } - strncpy((char *)param->u.crypt.alg, alg_name, IEEE_CRYPT_ALG_NAME_LEN); + strlcpy((char *)param->u.crypt.alg, alg_name, IEEE_CRYPT_ALG_NAME_LEN); if (pext->ext_flags & IW_ENCODE_EXT_SET_TX_KEY) param->u.crypt.set_tx = 1; -- 2.18.0 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel