Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: use strscpy() for ifname copy

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 05:34:18PM +0300, Svyatoslav Nikolenko wrote:
> Replace snprintf() with strscpy() when copying ifname into registry_par
> to avoid unnecessary format specifier parsing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Svyatoslav Nikolenko <nsvatoslav515@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/os_intfs.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/os_intfs.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/os_intfs.c
> index f31196f54b3e..dd0c5fc813c8 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/os_intfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/os_intfs.c
> @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ static void loadparam(struct adapter *padapter, struct net_device *pnetdev)
>  
>  	registry_par->enable80211d = (u8)rtw_80211d;
>  
> -	snprintf(registry_par->ifname, 16, "%s", ifname);
> +	strscpy(registry_par->ifname, ifname, sizeof(registry_par->ifname));
>  
>  	registry_par->notch_filter = (u8)rtw_notch_filter;

the ifname module option, and field, should just be removed from this
driver entirely.  Can you do that instead?

thanks,

greg k-h