Re: [PATCH] string: drop __must_check from strscpy() and restore strscpy() usages in cgroup

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Jan 12 2018 - 14:38:32 EST


Hello, Linus.

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 07:21:15AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> From ceb2d2b2e496f180be95adb670337bb254f89323 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 07:00:29 -0800
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> e7fd37ba1217 ("cgroup: avoid copying strings longer than the buffers")
> converted possibly unsafe strncpy() usages in cgroup to strscpy().
> However, although the callsites are completely fine with truncated
> copied, because strscpy() is marked __must_check, it led to the
> following warnings.

Do you want to pick up this patch? If not, I can route it through
cgroup tree.

Thanks.

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tejun