From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 216CF17F5; Mon, 30 Oct 2023 06:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="TQRT3hhW" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 20596C433C8; Mon, 30 Oct 2023 06:13:19 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1698646400; bh=6qx7gkadhjjPFR2FBT459d6MskGyskl2wBormk0qgU0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=TQRT3hhWe3ySUJPZU6t5QFh0Ah5G7FADdt82bPl4Ox3CPkwTdLoALxmWMl8u6tXUx R9RuQuWvypFSJhWSrvXo2kWUYFh22EgKSJQO9tmCiF79PpZaQFU3vFEXQOoEEFhSja 05uM4iakw3PJa72dh5R58issdP3bw9z3rEeBftZQ= Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 07:13:17 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Nancy Nyambura Cc: nicydaniels@gmail.com, outreachy@lists.linux.dev, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rts5208: Replace strncpy() with strscpy() for appropriate string copying in rtsx_scsi line 524 warning: found by checkpatch.pl script Message-ID: <2023103052-musky-defacing-ca25@gregkh> References: <20231029191647.44127-1-nicymimz@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20231029191647.44127-1-nicymimz@gmail.com> On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 10:16:42PM +0300, Nancy Nyambura wrote: > Signed-off-by: Nancy Nyambura > --- > drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_scsi.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_scsi.c b/drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_scsi.c > index 08bd768ad34d..52324b8ebbc7 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_scsi.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_scsi.c > @@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ static int inquiry(struct scsi_cmnd *srb, struct rtsx_chip *chip) > > if (sendbytes > 8) { > memcpy(buf, inquiry_buf, 8); > - strncpy(buf + 8, inquiry_string, sendbytes - 8); > + strscpy(buf + 8, inquiry_string, sendbytes - 8); > if (pro_formatter_flag) { > /* Additional Length */ > buf[4] = 0x33; > -- > 2.40.1 > > Hi, This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman. You have sent him a patch that has triggered this response. He used to manually respond to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was created. Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux kernel tree. You are receiving this message because of the following common error(s) as indicated below: - You did not specify a description of why the patch is needed, or possibly, any description at all, in the email body. Please read the section entitled "The canonical patch format" in the kernel file, Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for what is needed in order to properly describe the change. - You did not write a descriptive Subject: for the patch, allowing Greg, and everyone else, to know what this patch is all about. Please read the section entitled "The canonical patch format" in the kernel file, Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for what a proper Subject: line should look like. If you wish to discuss this problem further, or you have questions about how to resolve this issue, please feel free to respond to this email and Greg will reply once he has dug out from the pending patches received from other developers. thanks, greg k-h's patch email bot