Re: [PATCH] Input: synaptics-rmi4 - replace deprecated strncpy

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Sat Sep 30 2023 - 12:06:50 EST


On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 09:58:11AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]
>
> Let's use memcpy() as the bounds have already been checked and this
> decays into a simple byte copy from one buffer to another removing any
> ambiguity that strncpy has.
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.

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Dmitry