The patch titled
Subject: ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
ia64-mca-use-strscpy-is-more-robust-and-safer.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ia64-mca-use-strscpy-is-more-robust-and-safer.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: xu xin <xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 06:19:50 +0000
The implementation of strscpy() is more robust and safer. That's now the
recommended way to copy NUL terminated strings.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220930061950.288290-1-xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Haowen Bai <baihaowen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c~ia64-mca-use-strscpy-is-more-robust-and-safer
+++ a/arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c
@@ -1793,7 +1793,7 @@ format_mca_init_stack(void *mca_data, un
p->parent = p->real_parent = p->group_leader = p;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->children);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->sibling);
- strncpy(p->comm, type, sizeof(p->comm)-1);
+ strscpy(p->comm, type, sizeof(p->comm)-1);
}
/* Caller prevents this from being called after init */
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx are
ia64-mca-use-strscpy-is-more-robust-and-safer.patch
