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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:51:38 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Hemdan, Hagar Gamal Halim" <hagarhem@amazon.de>
Cc: "stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Backport request
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On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 11:08:00AM +0000, Hemdan, Hagar Gamal Halim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please backport commit:
> 
> 0faf84caee63 ("cpufreq: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()")
> 
> to stable trees 5.10.y, 5.15.y, 6.1.y and 6.6.y. This commit fixes possible
> Buffer not null terminated of "policy->last_governor" and "default_governor"
> in __cpufreq_offline() and cpufreq_core_init().

Are any in-kernel users actually affected by this?  At a quick glance, I
can't see any, so why would it need to be backported?

thanks,

greg k-h