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Message-ID: <2023080952-maroon-waviness-9621@gregkh>
Date:   Wed, 9 Aug 2023 14:21:25 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Michael Straube <straube.linux@...il.com>
Cc:     philipp.g.hortmann@...il.com, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: prefer strscpy over strncpy

On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 09:51:14AM +0200, Michael Straube wrote:
> Replace strncpy with strscpy in two places where the destination buffer
> should be NUL-terminated. Found by checkpatch.
> 
> WARNING: Prefer strscpy, strscpy_pad, or __nonstring over strncpy - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90

If a global search/replace could be done, it would have happend a long
time ago.

How was this tested?  The functions work differently, are you sure there
is no change in functionality here?

thanks,

greg k-h

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