linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] drm: Use strscpy() instead of strscpy

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Message-Id: <596CAA63-C3F8-4C90-B898-259B7CF8AD6D@linux.dev>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:35:07 +0200
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
To: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
 Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
 David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
 Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] drm: Use strscpy() instead of strscpy_pad()

Hi all,

> On 8. Sep 2025, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> 
> kzalloc() already zero-initializes the destination buffers, making
> strscpy() sufficient for safely copying the names. The additional
> NUL-padding performed by strscpy_pad() is unnecessary.
> 
> If the destination buffer has a fixed length, strscpy() automatically
> determines its size using sizeof() when the argument is omitted. This
> makes the explicit size arguments unnecessary.
> 
> No functional changes intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
> ---

I've been resending this patch since April and I'm wondering what else I
could do to get this reviewed and/or merged?

The patch still applies to both linux-next and master.

Thanks,
Thorsten