netdev - Re: [PATCH] staging: qlge: Replace strncpy with strscpy

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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 18:36:58 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: Ricardo Lopes <ricardoapl.dev@...il.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, manishc@...vell.com,
	GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com, coiby.xu@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: qlge: Replace strncpy with strscpy

On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:30:21PM +0100, Ricardo Lopes wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 03:32:28PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 08:14:55PM +0100, Ricardo Lopes wrote:
> > > Avoid read overflows and other misbehavior due to missing termination.
> > 
> > As Dan said, this is not possible here.  Can you redo the changelog text
> > and resend it so that people aren't scared by the text?
> 
> Yes, I suppose removing that sentence and keeping the checkpatch.pl
> warning output would do?

Yes.

https://staticthinking.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/how-to-send-a-v2-patch/

regards,
dan carpenter