On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 09:19:06PM +0530, Bharadwaj Raju wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM Kent Overstreet > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Or better, a new helper: when we're copying to a fixed size buffer we > > really want to zero out the rest of the buffer - we don't just want a > > single terminating nul. > > I believe strscpy_pad does this? > > https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/kernel-api.html#c.strscpy_pad
almost, we don't want the 'required nul termination'; that's a requirement at least for disk labels where we need to preserve existing behaviour
