[PATCH v2] arm64/sysreg: refactor deprecated strncpy

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Wed Aug 16 11:25:26 PDT 2023


On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:33:51 +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
> [1]. Which seems to be the case here due to the forceful setting of `buf`'s
> tail to 0.
> 
> A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
> guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
> _not_ the case for `strncpy`!
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] arm64/sysreg: refactor deprecated strncpy
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/d232606773a0

Cheers,
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Will

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