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Message-ID: <1aed98e90fccdf78b6a26eac2ae8667bd1ed7685.camel@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 09:00:28 +0100
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Peter Hilber
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] ptp: Add vDSO-style vmclock support

On Mon, 2024-07-01 at 08:39 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 09:02:38AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Sun, 2024-06-30 at 14:28 +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > 
> > > W=1 allmodconfig builds with gcc-13 flag the following.
> > > Reading the documentation of strncpy() in fortify-string.h,
> > > I wonder if strscpy() would be more appropriate in this case.
> > 
> > It's never going to matter in practice, as the buffer is 32 bytes, so
> > "vmclock%d" would never get to the end even if was a 64-bit integer.
> > 
> > But as a matter of hygiene and best practice, yes strscpy() would be
> > more appropriate. Fixed in git, thanks.
> 
> Thanks! You can even use the 2-argument version. :)

2-argument version? ... oh, that's *special*. I don't know whether to
be impressed or disturbed. Perhaps a little bit of both. 

Done; thanks.

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