The patch titled
Subject: relay: use strscpy() is more robust and safer
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
relay-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/relay-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 Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: relay: use strscpy() is more robust and safer
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:53:25 +0800 (CST)
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/202211220853259244666@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: wuchi <wuchi.zero@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/relay.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/relay.c~relay-use-strscpy-is-more-robust-and-safer
+++ a/kernel/relay.c
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ struct rchan *relay_open(const char *bas
chan->private_data = private_data;
if (base_filename) {
chan->has_base_filename = 1;
- strlcpy(chan->base_filename, base_filename, NAME_MAX);
+ strscpy(chan->base_filename, base_filename, NAME_MAX);
}
chan->cb = cb;
kref_init(&chan->kref);
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ int relay_late_setup_files(struct rchan
if (!chan || !base_filename)
return -EINVAL;
- strlcpy(chan->base_filename, base_filename, NAME_MAX);
+ strscpy(chan->base_filename, base_filename, NAME_MAX);
mutex_lock(&relay_channels_mutex);
/* Is chan already set up? */
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx are
relay-use-strscpy-is-more-robust-and-safer.patch
