Re: [PATCH net 4/4] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Utilize strncpy() for ethtool::get_strings

[Andrew Lunn]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 04:25:29PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Do not use memcpy() which is not safe, but instead use strncpy() which
> will make sure that the string is NUL terminated (in the Linux
> implementation) if the string is smaller than the length specified. This
> fixes KASAN out of bounds warnings while fetching port statistics.
> 
> Fixes: f5e2ed022dff ("dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add Second back of statistics")

I'm sure it goes back much further than that.

> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

    Andrew