linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s390: net: ctcm_main.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:35:32 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
Cc:	Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Frank Blaschka <blaschka@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux390@...ibm.com,
	Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: net: ctcm_main.c: Cleaning up missing
 null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 03:19:47PM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> > It is guaranteed that the string ch->id always fits into CTCM_ID_SIZE.
> > What's in this case the benefit of replacing strncpy() by strlcpy()
> > here?
> 
> If it is really so! It can just as well replacing it with strcpy...

Or.. just leave the code alone.

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