This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/msm: use strscpy instead of strncpy to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-msm-use-strscpy-instead-of-strncpy.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b7534d3e8a01d7be6a65a7a33a2c40674cf2560e Author: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 18 04:01:52 2023 +0200 drm/msm: use strscpy instead of strncpy [ Upstream commit d7fd8634f48d76aa799ed57beb7d87dab91bde80 ] Using strncpy can result in non-NULL-terminated destination string. Use strscpy instead. This fixes following warning: drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_fence.c: In function ‘msm_fence_context_alloc’: drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_fence.c:25:9: warning: ‘strncpy’ specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation] 25 | strncpy(fctx->name, name, sizeof(fctx->name)); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fixes: f97decac5f4c ("drm/msm: Support multiple ringbuffers") Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@xxxxxxxxxxx> Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/518787/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118020152.1689213-1-dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_fence.c index 6c11be79574e5..ef79c3661acb4 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_fence.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_fence.c @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ msm_fence_context_alloc(struct drm_device *dev, const char *name) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); fctx->dev = dev; - strncpy(fctx->name, name, sizeof(fctx->name)); + strscpy(fctx->name, name, sizeof(fctx->name)); fctx->context = dma_fence_context_alloc(1); init_waitqueue_head(&fctx->event); spin_lock_init(&fctx->spinlock);