netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ipconfig: Replace strncpy with strscpy in ic_proto

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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:30:23 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
Cc: david.laight@...box.com, davem@...emloft.net, dsahern@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ipconfig: Replace strncpy with strscpy
 in
 ic_proto_name

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:08:05 +0100 you wrote:
> strncpy() is deprecated [1] for NUL-terminated destination buffers
> because it does not guarantee NUL termination. Replace it with strscpy()
> to ensure the destination buffer is always NUL-terminated and to avoid
> any additional NUL padding.
> 
> Although the identifier buffer has 252 usable bytes, strncpy() copied
> only up to 251 bytes to the zero-initialized buffer, relying on the last
> byte to act as an implicit NUL terminator. Switching to strscpy() avoids
> this implicit behavior and does not use magic numbers.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,v2] net: ipconfig: Replace strncpy with strscpy in ic_proto_name
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/ff736a286116

You are awesome, thank you!
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