[PATCH linux-next v2] x86/platform/uv: use strscpy to instead of strncpy()

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From: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>

The implementation of strscpy() is more robust and safer.
That's now the recommended way to copy NUL terminated strings.
---
change for v2
 - fix the mistake and make the code better and simpler,
thanks to Andy Shevchenko.
---

Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c
index a60af0230e27..d94140842aa3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c
@@ -205,11 +205,7 @@ static int param_set_action(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp)
 	char arg[ACTION_LEN], *p;

 	/* (remove possible '\n') */
-	strncpy(arg, val, ACTION_LEN - 1);
-	arg[ACTION_LEN - 1] = '\0';
-	p = strchr(arg, '\n');
-	if (p)
-		*p = '\0';
+	strscpy(arg, val, strnchrnul(val, ACTION_LEN, '\n') - val);

 	for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
 		if (!strcmp(arg, valid_acts[i].action))
-- 
2.15.2



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