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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
	Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>,
	Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com>,
	Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com>,
	Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com>,
	Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ASoC: Intel: Skylake: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 11:56:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202307281153.B9D0831710@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f0f0ebe4-55fb-4861-a94c-77c82ec600c5@sirena.org.uk>

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 12:27:24AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 08:30:18PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
> > 
> > A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
> > guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
> > _not_ the case for `strncpy`!
> 
> Please don't send new patches in reply to old patches or serieses, this
> makes it harder for both people and tools to understand what is going
> on - it can bury things in mailboxes and make it difficult to keep track
> of what current patches are, both for the new patches and the old ones.

Hm, I see "X-Mailer: b4 0.12.3". Is this a default behavior of b4? (If
so, that needs fixing.)

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-28 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-26 21:12 [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: Skylake: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy justinstitt
2023-07-26 22:34 ` Kees Cook
2023-07-28  7:25   ` Amadeusz Sławiński
2023-07-28 18:53     ` Kees Cook
2023-07-27 20:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Justin Stitt
2023-07-27 23:27   ` Mark Brown
2023-07-28 18:56     ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-07-28 19:05       ` Mark Brown
2023-07-28 18:58   ` Kees Cook

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