3.16.61-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This was done as part of commit 08a77676f9c5 upstream, from which the following description is taken: > strlcpy() is worse than strlcpy() because it unconditionally runs > strlen() on the source string, and the only reason we switched to > strlcpy() here was because it was lacking __must_check, which doesn't > reflect any material differences between the two function. It's just > that someone added __must_check to strscpy() and not to strlcpy(). > > These basic string copy operations are used in variety of ways, and > one of not-so-uncommon use cases is safely handling truncated copies, > where the caller naturally doesn't care about the return value. The > __must_check doesn't match the actual use cases and forces users to > opt for inferior variants which lack __must_check by happenstance or > spread ugly (void) casts. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ extern char * strncpy(char *,const char size_t strlcpy(char *, const char *, size_t); #endif #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRSCPY -ssize_t __must_check strscpy(char *, const char *, size_t); +ssize_t strscpy(char *, const char *, size_t); #endif #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCAT extern char * strcat(char *, const char *);
