Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com> writes:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> A suitable replacement is `memcpy` as we've already precisely calculated
> the number of bytes to copy while `buf` has been explicitly
> zero-initialized:
> | char buf[8] = { 0 };
>
> Link:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
> [1]
> Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html
> [2]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-harden...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - prefer memcpy to strscpy (thanks Kees)
> - Link to v1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914-strncpy-drivers-hwmon-ibmpowernv-c-v1-1-ba6b7f42c...@google.com
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/ibmpowernv.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
cheers
