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Message-ID: <4d49e640143a557861a75a65678485965611b638.camel@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 09:02:38 +0100
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Hilber <peter.hilber@...nsynergy.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] ptp: Add vDSO-style vmclock support

On Sun, 2024-06-30 at 14:28 +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> 
> W=1 allmodconfig builds with gcc-13 flag the following.
> Reading the documentation of strncpy() in fortify-string.h,
> I wonder if strscpy() would be more appropriate in this case.

It's never going to matter in practice, as the buffer is 32 bytes, so
"vmclock%d" would never get to the end even if was a 64-bit integer.

But as a matter of hygiene and best practice, yes strscpy() would be
more appropriate. Fixed in git, thanks.

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