linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: remove strcpy() use in favor of strscpy()

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Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:15:04 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To:     Calvince Otieno <calvncce@...il.com>
Cc:     outreachy@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
        Archana <craechal@...il.com>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: remove strcpy() use in favor of
 strscpy()

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 01:03:40PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The simplest approach is to do a:
> 
> 	git grep strscpy | grep " - 1"
> 
> But the better approach would be to write a Smatch or Coverity check to
> prevent these in the future.

I meant Coccinelle not Coverity.  Duh...

Also btw, sometimes we want to keep the "don't necessarily terminate the
string behavior".  That's rare and ugly, but it does exist.

regards,
dan carpenter