Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/ps3: refactor strncpy usage

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:34:47 +1000

Justin Stitt <[email-masked]> writes:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> `make_first_field()` should use similar implementation to `make_field()`
> due to memcpy having more obvious behavior here. The end result yields
> the same behavior as the previous `strncpy`-based implementation
> including the NUL-padding.
>
> Link: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings[1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <[email-masked]>
> ---
> Note:
> This follows up on a previous RFC which can be found here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/repository.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

This looks good to me. I'll pick this up directly, Geoff let me know if
this breaks something somehow.

cheers