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Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:18:32 +0200
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     yang.yang29@....com.cn, aspriel@...il.com, franky.lin@...adcom.com,
        hante.meuleman@...adcom.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com,
        sha-cyfmac-dev-list@...ineon.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xu.panda@....com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] brcm80211: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()

Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 01:08:36PM +0000, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> <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>
>> 
>> Mismatch email in From and Signed-off-by lines:
>> 
>> From: <yang.yang29@....com.cn>
>> Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@....com>
>> 
>> Patch set to Changes Requested.
>
> Kalle, please be aware of this response
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230113112817.623f58fa@kernel.org/
>
> "I don't trust that you know what you're doing. So please don't send
> any more strncpy() -> strscpy() conversions for networking."

Good to know, thanks.

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