linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: qlge: Replace strncpy with strscpy

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Message-ID: <2023100657-purge-wasting-621c@gregkh>
Date:   Fri, 6 Oct 2023 15:32:28 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Ricardo Lopes <ricardoapl.dev@...il.com>
Cc:     manishc@...vell.com, GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com,
        coiby.xu@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: qlge: Replace strncpy with strscpy

On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 08:14:55PM +0100, Ricardo Lopes wrote:
> Avoid read overflows and other misbehavior due to missing termination.

As Dan said, this is not possible here.  Can you redo the changelog text
and resend it so that people aren't scared by the text?

thanks,

greg k-h