[PATCH] net/smc: replace strncpy with strscpy

Pranav Tyagi
2025-06-17T12:26:14Z

Replace the deprecated strncpy() with strscpy() as the destination
buffer should be NUL-terminated and does not require any trailing
NUL-padding.

Signed-off-by: Pranav Tyagi <pranav.tyagi03@gmail.com>
---
net/smc/smc_pnet.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/smc/smc_pnet.c b/net/smc/smc_pnet.c
index b391c2ef463f..b70e1f3179c5 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_pnet.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_pnet.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ static int smc_pnet_add_eth(struct smc_pnettable *pnettable, struct net *net,
goto out_put;
new_pe->type = SMC_PNET_ETH;
memcpy(new_pe->pnet_name, pnet_name, SMC_MAX_PNETID_LEN);
- strncpy(new_pe->eth_name, eth_name, IFNAMSIZ);
+ strscpy(new_pe->eth_name, eth_name, IFNAMSIZ);
rc = -EEXIST;
new_netdev = true;
mutex_lock(&pnettable->lock);
--
2.49.0