linux-hardening - Re: [GIT PULL] strlcpy removal for v6.8-rc1

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=whu2k-PwHVZS4uKj3kksVUF_Fqzap-YXwnVKeC6S9pBNg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:59:43 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, 
	Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>, Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>, 
	Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, 
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>, linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] strlcpy removal for v6.8-rc1

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 14:53, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I should have called that out in the PR, but the commit itself
> had my rationale for intentionally leaving those in:
>
>     Leave mentions in Documentation (about its deprecation), and in
>     checkpatch.pl (to help migrate host-only tools/ usage).

Hmm. Yeah, I guess the host tooling is an issue, although there
strlcpy makes a lot more sense since I think it exists in various user
space libraries (while strscpy() is kernel-only).

> If you feel like that's not right, I can either respin or send a
> follow-up patch?

Oh, I already took the pull request, I was just reacting to leftovers.
This is not a big deal.

              Linus