linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v2] power: supply: surface_battery: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 02:53:11 +0200
From: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.com>
To: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>, 
 Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] power: supply: surface_battery: replace deprecated
 strncpy with strscpy


On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:39:02 +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
> [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
> interfaces.
> 
> We expect bat->name to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with
> strcmp():
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] power: supply: surface_battery: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
      commit: 81f07d2b0c4db3b6e53d90419db915c75beb6326

Best regards,
-- 
Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.com>