linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] liquidio: Simplify octeon_download

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Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:11:13 +0200
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        dchickles@...vell.com, sburla@...vell.com, fmanlunas@...vell.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        veerasenareddy.burru@...ium.com
Cc:     felix.manlunas@...ium.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] liquidio: Simplify octeon_download_firmware()

On Sun, 2023-10-22 at 22:59 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> In order to remove the usage of strncat(), write directly at the rigth
> place in the 'h->bootcmd' array and check if the output is truncated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> ---
> The goal is to potentially remove the strncat() function from the kernel.
> Their are only few users and most of them use it wrongly.
> 
> This patch is compile tested only.

Then just switch to strlcat, would be less invasive.

Thanks,

Paolo