linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] module: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()

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Message-ID: <975dff84-234d-4fad-b15d-0427672785d1@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:07:16 +0100
From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
 Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>, Daniel Gomez
 <da.gomez@...sung.com>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()

On 3/7/25 12:35, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> strncpy() is deprecated for NUL-terminated destination buffers; use
> strscpy() instead. The destination buffer ownername is only used with
> "%s" format strings and must therefore be NUL-terminated, but not NUL-
> padded.
> 
> No functional changes intended.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>

Looks good to me. I've queued it on modules-next.

-- 
Thanks,
Petr