From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri,  2 Mar 2018 15:08:35 -0800

> After turning on KASAN on one of my systems, I started getting lots of out of
> bounds errors while fetching a given port's statistics, and indeed using
> memcpy() is unsafe for copying strings which have not been declared as an 
> array
> of ETH_GSTRING_LEN bytes, so let's use strlcpy() instead. This allows the best
> of both worlds: we still keep the efficient memory usage of variably sized
> strings, but we don't copy more than we need to.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - dropped the 3 other patches that were not necessary
> - use strlcpy() instead of strncpy()

Series applied, thanks Florian.

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