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From: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
To: yang.yang29@zte.com.cn, pmladek@suse.com
Cc: senozhatsky@chromium.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xu.panda@zte.com.cn,
	yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] printk: use strscpy() to instead of strlcpy()
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 10:17:07 +0106	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jugx0wk.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202211301601416229001@zte.com.cn>

On 2022-11-30, <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> wrote:
> From: Xu Panda <xu.panda@zte.com.cn>
>
> The implementation of strscpy() is more robust and safer.
> That's now the recommended way to copy NUL terminated strings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <xu.panda@zte.com.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com>

This looks fine, but I am wondering if we should also replace all
strncpy() usage as well. AFAICT they can all be replaced. It would also
avoid the manual termination in console_setup().

John Ogness

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-30  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-30  8:01 [PATCH linux-next] printk: use strscpy() to instead of strlcpy() yang.yang29
2022-11-30  9:11 ` John Ogness [this message]
2022-11-30 10:43   ` Petr Mladek
2022-11-30 10:39 ` Petr Mladek

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