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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
	John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource: Remove unnecessary size argument when calling strscpy()
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:33:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmctw775.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250311110624.495718-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>

On Tue, Mar 11 2025 at 12:06, Thorsten Blum wrote:

> The size parameter is optional and strscpy() automatically determines
> the length of the destination buffer using sizeof() if the argument is
> omitted.

If, and _only_ if the destination argument is a fixed length array.

That's the case here, but without that distinction the above sentence is
misleading at best.

Thanks,

        tglx


  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-13 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-11 11:06 [PATCH] clocksource: Remove unnecessary size argument when calling strscpy() Thorsten Blum
2025-03-13 10:33 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2025-03-13 10:52 ` [tip: timers/core] clocksource: Remove unnecessary strscpy() size argument tip-bot2 for Thorsten Blum

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