Re: [PATCH] block: fix length of strscpy()

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On 1/1/24 10:50 AM, Guoxin Pu wrote:
> In commit 146afeb235ccec10c17ad8ea26327c0c79dbd968 ("block: use strscpy()
> to instead of strncpy()") , the length that should now represent the length
> of the string with the terminating NULL was not updated alongside the
> change.
> 
> This has caused blkdevparts= definition on kernel cmdline to be not
> correctly recognized and partitions not correctly initialized, breaking any
> device relying on such partitions to boot, on stable releases since 6.6
> 
> This patch fixes the lengths to contain the terminating NULL.

This needs a Fixes line.

-- 
Jens Axboe






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