Re: [PATCH] scsi: ibmvscsi: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Wed Dec 13 2023 - 23:30:02 EST


On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:40:48 +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:

> strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
> [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
> interfaces.
>
> We expect partition_name to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with
> format strings:
> | dev_info(hostdata->dev, "host srp version: %s, "
> | "host partition %s (%d), OS %d, max io %u\n",
> | hostdata->madapter_info.srp_version,
> | hostdata->madapter_info.partition_name,
> | be32_to_cpu(hostdata->madapter_info.partition_number),
> | be32_to_cpu(hostdata->madapter_info.os_type),
> | be32_to_cpu(hostdata->madapter_info.port_max_txu[0]));
> ...
> | len = snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n",
> | hostdata->madapter_info.partition_name);
>
> [...]

Applied to 6.8/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: ibmvscsi: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/712b3f43ba0e

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering