[PATCH] habanalabs/gaudi2: refactor deprecated strncpy
Stanislaw Gruszka
stanislaw.gruszka at linux.intel.com
Fri Aug 25 09:20:11 UTC 2023
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 08:45:08PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> 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`!
>
> Link: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings[1]
> Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stanislaw.gruszka at linux.intel.com>
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