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[198.0.35.241]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id pl15-20020a17090b268f00b0028bdc73edfcsm4660022pjb.12.2024.01.19.14.53.21 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:53:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:53:21 -0800 From: Kees Cook To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andy Shevchenko , Andy Whitcroft , Azeem Shaikh , Brian Foster , Dwaipayan Ray , Joe Perches , Kent Overstreet , linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, Lukas Bulwahn Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] strlcpy removal for v6.8-rc1 Message-ID: <202401191450.CAF805687A@keescook> References: <202401191311.B6AA79D@keescook> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 02:00:14PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 13:14, Kees Cook wrote: > > > > The kernel is now free of the strlcpy() API! > > .. still mentioned in docs and checkpatch. Maybe remove that too? Sorry, I should have called that out in the PR, but the commit itself had my rationale for intentionally leaving those in: Leave mentions in Documentation (about its deprecation), and in checkpatch.pl (to help migrate host-only tools/ usage). If you feel like that's not right, I can either respin or send a follow-up patch? -Kees -- Kees Cook