From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 7eb74ff891b4e94b8bac48f648a21e4b94ddee64 ] Caught by GCC 8. When we provide a length for strncpy, we should not include the terminating null. So we must tell it one less than the size of the destination buffer. Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c index 35f2866b38c6b..1199f0502d6d5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c @@ -694,7 +694,8 @@ static long i40e_ptp_create_clock(struct i40e_pf *pf) if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(pf->ptp_clock)) return 0; - strncpy(pf->ptp_caps.name, i40e_driver_name, sizeof(pf->ptp_caps.name)); + strncpy(pf->ptp_caps.name, i40e_driver_name, + sizeof(pf->ptp_caps.name) - 1); pf->ptp_caps.owner = THIS_MODULE; pf->ptp_caps.max_adj = 999999999; pf->ptp_caps.n_ext_ts = 0; -- 2.20.1