linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] Input: synaptics-rmi4

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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:06:41 -0700
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Cc: linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: synaptics-rmi4 - replace deprecated strncpy

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 09:58:11AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]
> 
> Let's use memcpy() as the bounds have already been checked and this
> decays into a simple byte copy from one buffer to another removing any
> ambiguity that strncpy has.
> 
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>

Applied, thank you.

-- 
Dmitry