[PATCH v2 net-next] net/sched: replace strncpy with strscpy

[PATCH v2 net-next] net/sched: replace strncpy with strscpy

[Pranav Tyagi]

Replace the deprecated strncpy() with the two-argument version of
strscpy() as the destination is an array
and buffer should be NUL-terminated.

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

diff --git a/net/sched/em_text.c b/net/sched/em_text.c
index 420c66203b17..6b3d0af72c39 100644
--- a/net/sched/em_text.c
+++ b/net/sched/em_text.c
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static int em_text_dump(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tcf_ematch *m)
 	struct text_match *tm = EM_TEXT_PRIV(m);
 	struct tcf_em_text conf;
 
-	strncpy(conf.algo, tm->config->ops->name, sizeof(conf.algo) - 1);
+	strscpy(conf.algo, tm->config->ops->name);
 	conf.from_offset = tm->from_offset;
 	conf.to_offset = tm->to_offset;
 	conf.from_layer = tm->from_layer;
-- 
2.49.0

Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net/sched: replace strncpy with strscpy

[Simon Horman]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 04:06:53PM +0530, Pranav Tyagi wrote:
> Replace the deprecated strncpy() with the two-argument version of
> strscpy() as the destination is an array
> and buffer should be NUL-terminated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pranav Tyagi <pranav.tyagi03@gmail.com>

Thanks for the update.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>

Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net/sched: replace strncpy with strscpy

[patchwork-bot+netdevbpf]

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:06:53 +0530 you wrote:
> Replace the deprecated strncpy() with the two-argument version of
> strscpy() as the destination is an array
> and buffer should be NUL-terminated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pranav Tyagi <pranav.tyagi03@gmail.com>
> ---
>  net/sched/em_text.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v2,net-next] net/sched: replace strncpy with strscpy
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/b04202d6065c

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