netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] macvlan: Replace strncpy() by strscpy()

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Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 00:01:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gustavo@...eddedor.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] macvlan: Replace strncpy() by strscpy()

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 13:38:55 -0500

> The strncpy() function is being deprecated. Replace it by the safer
> strscpy() and fix the following Coverity warning:
> 
> "Calling strncpy with a maximum size argument of 16 bytes on destination
> array ifrr.ifr_ifrn.ifrn_name of size 16 bytes might leave the destination
> string unterminated."
> 
> Notice that, unlike strncpy(), strscpy() always null-terminates the
> destination string.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1445537 ("Buffer not null terminated")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>

Applied.