linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nvme: prefer strlcpy to strncpy

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Message-ID: <20180529081117.GA1416@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 29 May 2018 10:11:17 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
Cc:     keith.busch@...el.com, axboe@...com, hch@....de, sagi@...mberg.me,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: prefer strlcpy to strncpy

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:49:18PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Fixes a stringop-truncation warning from gcc-8.

What would that warning be?  Maybe it actually is genuinly useful,
and switching to strlcpy just papers over it..