linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] scsi: bnx2fc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

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Message-ID: <yq1cywb2k0h.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:01:30 -0500
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Cc: Saurav Kashyap <skashyap@...vell.com>, Javed Hasan
 <jhasan@...vell.com>,
        GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@...vell.com,
        "James
 E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen"
 <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: bnx2fc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy


Justin,

> strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
> [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
> interfaces.

Applied to 6.8/scsi-staging, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering