Re: [GIT PULL] strlcpy removal for v6.8-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 14:53, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I should have called that out in the PR, but the commit itself
> had my rationale for intentionally leaving those in:
>
>     Leave mentions in Documentation (about its deprecation), and in
>     checkpatch.pl (to help migrate host-only tools/ usage).

Hmm. Yeah, I guess the host tooling is an issue, although there
strlcpy makes a lot more sense since I think it exists in various user
space libraries (while strscpy() is kernel-only).

> If you feel like that's not right, I can either respin or send a
> follow-up patch?

Oh, I already took the pull request, I was just reacting to leftovers.
This is not a big deal.

              Linus