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

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Message-ID: <ZSAoDYYqgoXXV4s_@babbage>
Date:   Fri, 6 Oct 2023 16:30:21 +0100
From:   Ricardo Lopes <ricardoapl.dev@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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 Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 03:32:28PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

Yes, I suppose removing that sentence and keeping the checkpatch.pl
warning output would do?

Thank you,

Ricardo Lopes