[PATCH] pinctrl: samsung: Use snprintf() to construct pin bank names

Mariia Nikitash nikitash.mariiaw at gmail.com
Sun Sep 27 12:07:58 PDT 2026


From: Bill Wendling <morbo at google.com>

samsung_banks_node_get() constructs each pin bank node name by copying
bank->name with strscpy() and appending the suffix with strlcat().

In preparation for removing the deprecated strlcat() API[1], format the
node name in a single snprintf() call, which preserves the existing
truncation check against sizeof(node_name).

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/370 [1]
Cc: codemender-patching+linux at google.com
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariia Nikitash <nikitash.mariiaw at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-samsung.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-samsung.c b/drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-samsung.c
index 5ecc9ed4c44d..0d639eec689c 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-samsung.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-samsung.c
@@ -1155,8 +1155,7 @@ static void samsung_banks_node_get(struct device *dev, struct samsung_pinctrl_dr
 
 	bank = d->pin_banks;
 	for (i = 0; i < d->nr_banks; ++i, ++bank) {
-		strscpy(node_name, bank->name, sizeof(node_name));
-		len = strlcat(node_name, suffix, sizeof(node_name));
+		len = snprintf(node_name, sizeof(node_name), "%s%s", bank->name, suffix);
 		if (len >= sizeof(node_name)) {
 			dev_err(dev, "Too long pin bank name '%s', ignoring\n",
 				bank->name);
-- 
2.43.0




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