The patch titled
Subject: mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-use-strscpy-to-instead-of-strncpy.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-use-strscpy-to-instead-of-strncpy.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-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: mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 19:46:55 +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/202301091946553770006@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/damon/sysfs-schemes.c~mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-use-strscpy-to-instead-of-strncpy
+++ a/mm/damon/sysfs-schemes.c
@@ -353,8 +353,7 @@ static ssize_t memcg_path_store(struct k
if (!path)
return -ENOMEM;
- strncpy(path, buf, count);
- path[count] = '\0';
+ strscpy(path, buf, count + 1);
filter->memcg_path = path;
return count;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx are
selftests-vm-ksm_functional_tests-fix-a-typo-in-comment.patch
mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-use-strscpy-to-instead-of-strncpy.patch
