The patch titled Subject: lib: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is lib-move-from-strlcpy-with-unused-retval-to-strscpy.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/lib-move-from-strlcpy-with-unused-retval-to-strscpy.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 23:02:03 +0200 Follow the advice of the below link and prefer 'strscpy' in this subsystem. Conversion is 1:1 because the return value is not used. Generated by a coccinelle script. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818210203.8251-1-wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/earlycpio.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/lib/earlycpio.c~lib-move-from-strlcpy-with-unused-retval-to-strscpy +++ a/lib/earlycpio.c @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ struct cpio_data find_cpio_data(const ch "File %s exceeding MAX_CPIO_FILE_NAME [%d]\n", p, MAX_CPIO_FILE_NAME); } - strlcpy(cd.name, p + mypathsize, MAX_CPIO_FILE_NAME); + strscpy(cd.name, p + mypathsize, MAX_CPIO_FILE_NAME); cd.data = (void *)dptr; cd.size = ch[C_FILESIZE]; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are alpha-move-from-strlcpy-with-unused-retval-to-strscpy.patch ia64-move-from-strlcpy-with-unused-retval-to-strscpy.patch ocfs2-move-from-strlcpy-with-unused-retval-to-strscpy.patch reiserfs-move-from-strlcpy-with-unused-retval-to-strscpy.patch init-move-from-strlcpy-with-unused-retval-to-strscpy.patch lib-move-from-strlcpy-with-unused-retval-to-strscpy.patch