linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/hpet: use strscpy() is more robust and safer

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Message-Id: <20220916063414.155695-1-chi.minghao@zte.com.cn>
Date:   Fri, 16 Sep 2022 06:34:14 +0000
From:   cgel.zte@...il.com
To:     tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:     mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Minghao Chi <chi.minghao@....com.cn>,
        Zeal Robot <zealci@....com.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/hpet: use strscpy() is more robust and safer

From: Minghao Chi <chi.minghao@....com.cn>

The implementation of strscpy() is more robust and safer.

That's now the recommended way to copy NUL terminated strings.

Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@....com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Minghao Chi <chi.minghao@....com.cn>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
index 71f336425e58..47ef8aecdd37 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ static void __init hpet_legacy_clockevent_register(struct hpet_channel *hc)
 	 * the IO_APIC has been initialized.
 	 */
 	hc->cpu = boot_cpu_data.cpu_index;
-	strncpy(hc->name, "hpet", sizeof(hc->name));
+	strscpy(hc->name, "hpet", sizeof(hc->name));
 	hpet_init_clockevent(hc, 50);
 
 	hc->evt.tick_resume	= hpet_clkevt_legacy_resume;
-- 
2.25.1