Re: [PATCH] ASoC: intel: avs: refactor strncpy usage in topology

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Jul 26 2023 - 07:50:35 EST


On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:08:38PM +0000, justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
> [1].
>
> A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2].
>
> There are some hopes that someday the `strncpy` api could be ripped out
> due to the vast number of suitable replacements (strscpy, strscpy_pad,
> strtomem, strtomem_pad, strlcpy) [1].
>
> [1]: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
> [2]: manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html
>
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>
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

You've put your signoff after a --- which means it gets deleted when
applied, don't do this. The Signoff should be start of the main
changelog.

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