On 8/9/23 14:21, Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 09:51:14AM +0200, Michael Straube wrote:
Replace strncpy with strscpy in two places where the destination buffer
should be NUL-terminated. Found by checkpatch.
WARNING: Prefer strscpy, strscpy_pad, or __nonstring over strncpy - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
If a global search/replace could be done, it would have happend a long
time ago.
How was this tested? The functions work differently, are you sure there
is no change in functionality here?
It was only compile tested. To me it looked as it does not change
functionality, but looking a bit deeper at it I'm not sure anymore.
So, we should leave it as is.
thank you
Michael
