linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] zram: zram_drv: replace strlcpy with strscpy

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Date:   Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:00:21 +0100
From:   Miko Larsson <mikoxyzzz@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     minchan@...nel.org, ngupta@...are.org, senozhatsky@...omium.org,
        axboe@...nel.dk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] zram: zram_drv: replace strlcpy with strscpy

On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 02:14:44 -0800
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 08:21:28PM +0100, Miko Larsson wrote:
> > strlcpy shouldn't be used; strscpy should be used instead.
> 
> I think the proper API to use here would be kmemdup_nul.

Thanks for the heads-up! That only seems to apply to the assignment of
'file_name'. The usage of strscpy seems to be correct in the other two
cases, though (since they're char arrays.) I suspect I might be wrong
though, since my knowledge of C is shabby at best.