Re: [PATCH] media: siano: Replace strlcat() with snprintf() in sms_ir_init()

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Mariia,

> Date: 2026-11-04 01:02:39-0800
> From: Mariia Nikitash <nikitash.mariiaw@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> In preparation for removing the deprecated strlcat() API[1],
> replace the strscpy() and strlcat() calls with a single snprintf()
> call to construct the IR device path.
> 
> Both the source and destination buffers have the same capacity,

The line above seems irrelevant, and potentially confusing.
The size of the input is not important, because since we're appending
stuff after it, truncation may actually happen.

> and the return values are unused. This preserves the resulting
> string, including truncation behavior.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/370 [1]
> Signed-off-by: Mariia Nikitash <nikitash.mariiaw@xxxxxxxxx>

Except for the small comment above,

Reviewed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>


Cheers,
Alex

> ---
>  drivers/media/common/siano/smsir.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/common/siano/smsir.c b/drivers/media/common/siano/smsir.c
> index 283770d583d5..636ff228108b 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/common/siano/smsir.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/common/siano/smsir.c
> @@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ int sms_ir_init(struct smscore_device_t *coredev)
>  	snprintf(coredev->ir.name, sizeof(coredev->ir.name),
>  		 "SMS IR (%s)", sms_get_board(board_id)->name);
>  
> -	strscpy(coredev->ir.phys, coredev->devpath, sizeof(coredev->ir.phys));
> -	strlcat(coredev->ir.phys, "/ir0", sizeof(coredev->ir.phys));
> +	snprintf(coredev->ir.phys, sizeof(coredev->ir.phys),
> +		 "%s/ir0", coredev->devpath);
>  
>  	dev->device_name = coredev->ir.name;
>  	dev->input_phys = coredev->ir.phys;
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
> 

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