Re: [PATCH] bcachefs: replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()

[Alan Huang]

On Mar 27, 2025, at 00:17, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 09:19:06PM +0530, Bharadwaj Raju wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM Kent Overstreet
>> <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Or better, a new helper: when we're copying to a fixed size buffer we
>>> really want to zero out the rest of the buffer - we don't just want a
>>> single terminating nul.
>> 
>> I believe strscpy_pad does this?
>> 
>> https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/kernel-api.html#c.strscpy_pad
> 
> almost, we don't want the 'required nul termination'; that's a
> requirement at least for disk labels where we need to preserve existing
> behaviour

memcpy_and_pad :)