Re: [PATCH] tools/x86/kcpuid: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()

[Jiri Slaby]

On 17. 03. 25, 8:32, feng.wei8@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: FengWei <feng.wei8@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> strncpy() is deprecated for NUL-terminated destination buffers. Use
> strscpy() instead and remove the manual NUL-termination.
>
> Signed-off-by: FengWei <feng.wei8@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/kcpuid.c | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/kcpuid.c b/tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/kcpuid.c
> index 1b25c0a95d3f..23a8fde2e203 100644
> --- a/tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/kcpuid.c
> +++ b/tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/kcpuid.c
> @@ -312,8 +312,7 @@ static int parse_line(char *line)
>   	if (line[0] == '#' || line[0] == '\n')
>   		return 0;
>
> -	strncpy(buffer, line, 511);
> -	buffer[511] = 0;
> +	strscpy(buffer, line, 511);

Mind you this is userspace?

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