Function strncpy was used to copy a fixed size buffer. Since NUL-terminating string is not required here, prefer a memcpy function. The generated code (ppc32) remains the same. Silence the following warning triggered using W=1: fs/hfsplus/xattr.c:410:3: warning: 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul copying 4 bytes from a string of the same length [-Wstringop-truncation] Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hfsplus/xattr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c b/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c index d5403b4004c9..bb0b27d88e50 100644 --- a/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c +++ b/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static int copy_name(char *buffer, const char *xattr_name, int name_len) int offset = 0; if (!is_known_namespace(xattr_name)) { - strncpy(buffer, XATTR_MAC_OSX_PREFIX, XATTR_MAC_OSX_PREFIX_LEN); + memcpy(buffer, XATTR_MAC_OSX_PREFIX, XATTR_MAC_OSX_PREFIX_LEN); offset += XATTR_MAC_OSX_PREFIX_LEN; len += XATTR_MAC_OSX_PREFIX_LEN; } -- 2.20.1