Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: ipconfig: replace strncpy with strscpy

From: Pranav Tyagi <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 21:36:23 +0530

Replace the deprecated strncpy() with strscpy() as the destination
buffer is NUL-terminated and does not require any
trailing NUL-padding.

Signed-off-by: Pranav Tyagi <[email-masked]>
---
 net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index c56b6fe6f0d7..eb9b32214e60 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -1690,7 +1690,7 @@ static int __init ic_proto_name(char *name)
 			*v = 0;
 			if (kstrtou8(client_id, 0, dhcp_client_identifier))
 				pr_debug("DHCP: Invalid client identifier type\n");
-			strncpy(dhcp_client_identifier + 1, v + 1, 251);
+			strscpy(dhcp_client_identifier + 1, v + 1, 251);
 			*v = ',';
 		}
 		return 1;
-- 
2.49.0