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Message-ID: <512c1700-b333-8aea-f19b-707523ac3a6e@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 10:58:07 +1100 (AEDT)
From: Finn Thain <fthain@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
cc: Sathya Prakash Veerichetty <sathya.prakash@...adcom.com>,
     Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@...adcom.com>,
     Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@...adcom.com>,
     Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@...adcom.com>,
     "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
     Suganath Prabu Subramani <suganath-prabu.subramani@...adcom.com>,
     Ariel Elior <aelior@...vell.com>,
 Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>,
     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
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     Nilesh Javali <njavali@...vell.com>,
     Manish Rangankar <mrangankar@...vell.com>,
     Don Brace <don.brace@...rochip.com>,
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 linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,     MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org,     storagedev@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] scsi: mpi3mr: replace deprecated strncpy with
 strscpy


On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, Justin Stitt wrote:

> Really, there's no bug with the current code. 

If (hypothetically) you needed to reduce stack size, just copy the char 
pointer instead of copying the chars onto the stack.

If (hypothetically) strncpy() was banned altogether (rather than merely 
deprecated) I would do the same -- but I'm not the maintainer.

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