Re: [PATCH linux-next] printk: use strscpy() to instead of strlcpy()

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Wed Nov 30 2022 - 05:43:52 EST


On Wed 2022-11-30 10:17:07, John Ogness wrote:
> On 2022-11-30, <yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The implementation of strscpy() is more robust and safer.
> > That's now the recommended way to copy NUL terminated strings.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxx>
>
> This looks fine, but I am wondering if we should also replace all
> strncpy() usage as well. AFAICT they can all be replaced. It would also
> avoid the manual termination in console_setup().

I agree that it would be nice to replace strncpy() as well.
But it might be done in a separate patch.

Yang, Xu, would you like to do it, please?

Best Regards,
Petr