Re: [PATCH v6] staging: wlan-ng: replace strncpy() with strscpy()

From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Fri Oct 13 2023 - 09:28:44 EST


On 13/10/2023 18:19, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 02:15:43PM +0300, Calvince Otieno wrote:
>> Checkpatch suggests the use of strscpy() instead of strncpy().
>> The advantages are that it always adds a NUL terminator and it prevents
>> a read overflow if the src string is not properly terminated. One
>> potential disadvantage is that it doesn't zero pad the string like
>> strncpy() does.
>> In this code, strscpy() and strncpy() are equivalent and it does not
>> affect runtime behavior. The string is zeroed on the line before
>> using memset(). The resulting string was always NUL terminated and
>> PRISM2_USB_FWFILE is string literal "prism2_ru.fw" so it's NUL
>> terminated.
>> However, even though using strscpy() does not fix any bugs, it's
>> still nicer and makes checkpatch happy.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Calvince Otieno <calvncce@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
> It's still white space damaged and can't apply. :/ Try save the email
> and do `cat raw_email.txt | patch -p1`.
>

And better yet, use git-send-email(1) to send patches. But don't rush,
as you have sent five versions of this patch today. Please wait for a day
to a week and then reroll.

Thanks.

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