From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Shankari02 <shankari.ak0208@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, allison.henderson@oracle.com,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
horms@kernel.org, skhan@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: rds: Replace strncpy with strscpy in connection setup
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:36:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250424183634.02c51156@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250423153730.69812-1-shankari.ak0208@gmail.com>
On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:07:30 +0530 Shankari02 wrote:
> This patch replaces strncpy() with strscpy(), which is the
> preferred, safer alternative. strscpy() guarantees null-termination
> as long as the destination buffer is non-zero in size, and also
> provides a return value that can be used to detect truncation.
>
> This change is made in accordance with the Linux kernel
> documentation which marks strncpy() as deprecated for bounded
> string copying:
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-23 15:37 [PATCH] net: rds: Replace strncpy with strscpy in connection setup Shankari02
2025-04-25 1:36 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-04-26 19:21 ` [PATCH v2] " Shankari Anand
2025-04-26 19:26 ` Shankari
2025-04-30 18:16 ` Simon Horman
2025-05-21 5:52 ` [PATCH v3] " Shankari Anand
2025-05-21 5:54 ` Shankari Anand
2025-05-21 12:58 ` [PATCH v4] " Shankari Anand
2025-05-21 17:21 ` Allison Henderson
2025-05-21 6:05 ` [PATCH v3] " Shankari Anand
2025-04-28 23:25 ` [PATCH v2] " Allison Henderson
2025-04-29 18:09 ` Jakub Kicinski
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