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Message-ID: <Y5IL1up0Z4uT2TVc@corigine.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Dec 2022 17:07:50 +0100
From:   Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
To:     yang.yang29@....com.cn
Cc:     dchickles@...vell.com, sburla@...vell.com, fmanlunas@...vell.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xu.panda@....com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] net/liquidio: use strscpy() to instead of

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 07:55:06PM +0800, yang.yang29@....com.cn wrote:
> From: Xu Panda <xu.panda@....com.cn>
> 
> The implementation of strscpy() is more robust and safer.
> That's now the recommended way to copy NUL terminated strings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <xu.panda@....com.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@....com>

This change looks good to me, but I think the subject should be:

[PATCH net-next] liquidio: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()

Also, in the same file, does this need attention?

        /* Save off any leftovers */
        if (line != &console_buffer[bytes_read]) {
                console_buffer[bytes_read] = '\0';
                len = strlen(console->leftover);
                strncpy(&console->leftover[len], line,
                        sizeof(console->leftover) - len);
        }

> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_console.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_console.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_console.c
> index 28feabec8fbb..076e11f7cbec 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_console.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_console.c
> @@ -247,8 +247,7 @@ static const struct cvmx_bootmem_named_block_desc
>  					struct cvmx_bootmem_named_block_desc,
>  					size));
> 
> -		strncpy(desc->name, name, sizeof(desc->name));
> -		desc->name[sizeof(desc->name) - 1] = 0;
> +		strscpy(desc->name, name, sizeof(desc->name));
>  		return &oct->bootmem_named_block_desc;
>  	} else {
>  		return NULL;
> -- 
> 2.15.2
>