Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: remove strcpy() use in favor of strscpy()

From: Calvince Otieno
Date: Thu Oct 12 2023 - 05:57:35 EST


Yes, strscpy() has the same behavior as strncpy(). It is preferred to
strncpy() since it always returns
a valid string, and doesn't unnecessarily force the tail of the
destination buffer to be zeroed.

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 12:17 PM Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 12/10/2023 12:27, Calvince Otieno wrote:
> > if (j == -1) { /* plug the filename */
> > memset(dest, 0, s3plug[i].len);
> > - strncpy(dest, PRISM2_USB_FWFILE, s3plug[i].len - 1);
> > + strscpy(dest, PRISM2_USB_FWFILE, s3plug[i].len - 1);
>
> Is this strscpy() behavior same as previous strncpy()?
>
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