[PATCH] staging: greybus: Remove unnecessary NUL-termination checks

From: Thorsten Blum
Date: Mon Mar 31 2025 - 14:41:27 EST


Commit 18f44de63f88 ("staging: greybus: change strncpy() to
strscpy_pad()") didn't remove the now unnecessary NUL-termination
checks. Unlike strncpy(), strscpy_pad() guarantees that the destination
buffer is NUL-terminated, making the checks obsolete. Remove them.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c | 39 +------------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 38 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c
index a47385175582..852c0830261f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c
@@ -125,16 +125,6 @@ static int fw_mgmt_interface_fw_version_operation(struct fw_mgmt *fw_mgmt,

strscpy_pad(fw_info->firmware_tag, response.firmware_tag);

- /*
- * The firmware-tag should be NULL terminated, otherwise throw error but
- * don't fail.
- */
- if (fw_info->firmware_tag[GB_FIRMWARE_TAG_MAX_SIZE - 1] != '\0') {
- dev_err(fw_mgmt->parent,
- "fw-version: firmware-tag is not NULL terminated\n");
- fw_info->firmware_tag[GB_FIRMWARE_TAG_MAX_SIZE - 1] = '\0';
- }
-
return 0;
}

@@ -154,15 +144,6 @@ static int fw_mgmt_load_and_validate_operation(struct fw_mgmt *fw_mgmt,
request.load_method = load_method;
strscpy_pad(request.firmware_tag, tag);

- /*
- * The firmware-tag should be NULL terminated, otherwise throw error and
- * fail.
- */
- if (request.firmware_tag[GB_FIRMWARE_TAG_MAX_SIZE - 1] != '\0') {
- dev_err(fw_mgmt->parent, "load-and-validate: firmware-tag is not NULL terminated\n");
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
/* Allocate ids from 1 to 255 (u8-max), 0 is an invalid id */
ret = ida_alloc_range(&fw_mgmt->id_map, 1, 255, GFP_KERNEL);
if (ret < 0) {
@@ -250,15 +231,6 @@ static int fw_mgmt_backend_fw_version_operation(struct fw_mgmt *fw_mgmt,

strscpy_pad(request.firmware_tag, fw_info->firmware_tag);

- /*
- * The firmware-tag should be NULL terminated, otherwise throw error and
- * fail.
- */
- if (request.firmware_tag[GB_FIRMWARE_TAG_MAX_SIZE - 1] != '\0') {
- dev_err(fw_mgmt->parent, "backend-version: firmware-tag is not NULL terminated\n");
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
ret = gb_operation_sync(connection,
GB_FW_MGMT_TYPE_BACKEND_FW_VERSION, &request,
sizeof(request), &response, sizeof(response));
@@ -301,16 +273,7 @@ static int fw_mgmt_backend_fw_update_operation(struct fw_mgmt *fw_mgmt,
struct gb_fw_mgmt_backend_fw_update_request request;
int ret;

- ret = strscpy_pad(request.firmware_tag, tag);
-
- /*
- * The firmware-tag should be NULL terminated, otherwise throw error and
- * fail.
- */
- if (ret == -E2BIG) {
- dev_err(fw_mgmt->parent, "backend-update: firmware-tag is not NULL terminated\n");
- return -EINVAL;
- }
+ strscpy_pad(request.firmware_tag, tag);

/* Allocate ids from 1 to 255 (u8-max), 0 is an invalid id */
ret = ida_alloc_range(&fw_mgmt->id_map, 1, 255, GFP_KERNEL);