Justin Stitt <[email protected]> writes: > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]. > > A suitable replacement is `memcpy` as we've already precisely calculated > the number of bytes to copy while `buf` has been explicitly > zero-initialized: > | char buf[8] = { 0 }; > > Link: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings > [1] > Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html > [2] > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <[email protected]> > --- > Changes in v2: > - prefer memcpy to strscpy (thanks Kees) > - Link to v1: > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914-strncpy-drivers-hwmon-ibmpowernv-c-v1-1-ba6b7f42c...@google.com > --- > drivers/hwmon/ibmpowernv.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> (powerpc) cheers
