Re: [PATCH] crypto: hisilicon - fix strncpy warning with strlcpy

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Jun 05 2020 - 08:17:31 EST


On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 05:34:32PM +0800, Zhangfei Gao wrote:
> Will add a check after the copy.
>
>         strlcpy(interface.name, pdev->driver->name, sizeof(interface.name));
>         if (strlen(pdev->driver->name) != strlen(interface.name))
>                 return -EINVAL;

You don't need to do strlen. The function strlcpy returns the
length of the source string.

Better yet use strscpy which will even return an error for you.

Cheers,
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