From: Xiongfeng Wang <xiongfeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> gcc-8 reports drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c: In function 'mpt_display_event_info': ./include/linux/string.h:245:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 100 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation] We need to use strlcpy() to make sure the dest string is nul-terminated. Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <xiongfeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c index 7a93400..3c47888 100644 --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c @@ -7697,7 +7697,7 @@ static void seq_mpt_print_ioc_summary(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, struct seq_file *m, int break; } if (ds) - strncpy(evStr, ds, EVENT_DESCR_STR_SZ); + strlcpy(evStr, ds, EVENT_DESCR_STR_SZ); devtprintk(ioc, printk(MYIOC_s_DEBUG_FMT -- 1.8.3.1