netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 09:09:33 +0200
From:   Krzysztof Hałasa <khalasa@...p.pl>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy

Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com> writes:

> Follow the advice of the below link and prefer 'strscpy' in this
> subsystem. Conversion is 1:1 because the return value is not used.
> Generated by a coccinelle script.

Looks good to me (IXP4xx Ethernet).
Acked-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khalasa@...p.pl>

> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xscale/ixp4xx_eth.c
> @@ -999,11 +999,11 @@ static void ixp4xx_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev,
>  {
>  	struct port *port = netdev_priv(dev);
>  
> -	strlcpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));
> +	strscpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));
>  	snprintf(info->fw_version, sizeof(info->fw_version), "%u:%u:%u:%u",
>  		 port->firmware[0], port->firmware[1],
>  		 port->firmware[2], port->firmware[3]);
> -	strlcpy(info->bus_info, "internal", sizeof(info->bus_info));
> +	strscpy(info->bus_info, "internal", sizeof(info->bus_info));
>  }
>  

-- 
Krzysztof "Chris" Hałasa

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