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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:46:38 -0700
From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
pabeni@...hat.com, horms@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: caif: remove unused name
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 6:52 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Justin sent a patch to use strscpy_pad() instead of strncpy()
> on the name field. Simon rightly asked why the _pad() version
> is used, and looking closer name seems completely unused,
> the last code which referred to it was removed in
> commit 8391c4aab1aa ("caif: Bugfixes in CAIF netdevice for close and flow control")
Thanks for looking into this a bit deeper.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240909-strncpy-net-caif-chnl_net-c-v1-1-438eb870c155@google.com
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> ---
> CC: justinstitt@...gle.com
> CC: horms@...nel.org
>
> It's a bit unusual to take over patch submissions but the initial
> submission was too low effort to count :|
> ---
> net/caif/chnl_net.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
the best kind of diff :)
>
> diff --git a/net/caif/chnl_net.c b/net/caif/chnl_net.c
> index 47901bd4def1..94ad09e36df2 100644
> --- a/net/caif/chnl_net.c
> +++ b/net/caif/chnl_net.c
> @@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ struct chnl_net {
> struct caif_connect_request conn_req;
> struct list_head list_field;
> struct net_device *netdev;
> - char name[256];
> wait_queue_head_t netmgmt_wq;
> /* Flow status to remember and control the transmission. */
> bool flowenabled;
> @@ -347,7 +346,6 @@ static int chnl_net_init(struct net_device *dev)
> struct chnl_net *priv;
> ASSERT_RTNL();
> priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> - strncpy(priv->name, dev->name, sizeof(priv->name));
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->list_field);
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 2.46.0
>
Acked-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
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