netdev - [PATCH v2 2/2] staging: rtl8712u: Fix compiler warning about strncpy

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Date:   Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:46:46 -0500
From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] staging: rtl8712u: Fix compiler warning about strncpy

When strncpy() is called with source and destination strings the same
length, gcc 8 warns that there may be an unterminated string. Using
strlcpy() rather than strncpy() forces a null at the end and quiets the
warning.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
---
v2 - No changes.
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
index c3ff7c3e6681..08e1c0957a07 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -1789,7 +1789,7 @@ static int r871x_wx_set_enc_ext(struct net_device *dev,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	param->cmd = IEEE_CMD_SET_ENCRYPTION;
 	eth_broadcast_addr(param->sta_addr);
-	strncpy((char *)param->u.crypt.alg, alg_name, IEEE_CRYPT_ALG_NAME_LEN);
+	strlcpy((char *)param->u.crypt.alg, alg_name, IEEE_CRYPT_ALG_NAME_LEN);
 	if (pext->ext_flags & IW_ENCODE_EXT_GROUP_KEY)
 		param->u.crypt.set_tx = 0;
 	if (pext->ext_flags & IW_ENCODE_EXT_SET_TX_KEY)
-- 
2.18.0