Re: [PATCH v2] ASoC: Intel: Skylake: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

[Kees Cook]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 12:27:24AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 08:30:18PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
> > 
> > A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
> > guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
> > _not_ the case for `strncpy`!
> 
> Please don't send new patches in reply to old patches or serieses, this
> makes it harder for both people and tools to understand what is going
> on - it can bury things in mailboxes and make it difficult to keep track
> of what current patches are, both for the new patches and the old ones.

Hm, I see "X-Mailer: b4 0.12.3". Is this a default behavior of b4? (If
so, that needs fixing.)

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Kees Cook