linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ASoC: intel: avs: refactor strncpy usage in topology

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Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:49:23 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     justinstitt@...gle.com
Cc:     Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@...el.com>,
        Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...ux.intel.com>,
        Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: intel: avs: refactor strncpy usage in topology

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:08:38PM +0000, justinstitt@...gle.com wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
> [1].
> 
> A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2].
> 
> There are some hopes that someday the `strncpy` api could be ripped out
> due to the vast number of suitable replacements (strscpy, strscpy_pad,
> strtomem, strtomem_pad, strlcpy) [1].
> 
> [1]: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
> [2]: manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html
> 
> ---
> 
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
> ---

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