The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: prefer strscpy to strlcpy has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-prefer-strscpy-to-strlcpy.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: prefer strscpy to strlcpy Prefer strscpy over the deprecated strlcpy function. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/19fe91084890e2c16fe56f960de6c570a93fa99b.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Requested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-prefer-strscpy-to-strlcpy +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6646,6 +6646,12 @@ sub process { # } # } +# strlcpy uses that should likely be strscpy + if ($line =~ /\bstrlcpy\s*\(/) { + WARN("STRLCPY", + "Prefer strscpy over strlcpy - see: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw\@mail.gmail.com/\n" . $herecurr); + } + # typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t if ($perl_version_ok && defined $stat && _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are