linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy

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Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:52:14 +0200
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
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        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
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        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
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        John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy

On Thu 2022-08-25 14:40:26, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 
> > > Generated by a coccinelle script.
> ^ ^ ^
> 
> > You might want to use Coccinelle if a simple sed/awk gets too
> > complicated. See
> 
> :)
> 
> So, I did a tree wide conversion and let Linus know that I have a branch
> available. He didn't respond, so I assumed that individual patches is
> the way to go.

I am not sure when exactly you sent it. Linus is very busy during the
merge window and might miss less important things.

Also he might prefer to get the script that did the tree-wide change so
that he knows what exactly has changed.

Best Regards,
Petr