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Re: [PATCH] ibmvnic: Use strscpy() instead of strncpy()

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
Date: 2021-06-21 22:00:13
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Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (refs/heads/master):

On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 14:35:09 -0700 you wrote:
Since these strings are expected to be NUL-terminated and the buffers
are exactly sized (in vnic_client_data_len()) with no padding, strncpy()
can be safely replaced with strscpy() here, as strncpy() on
NUL-terminated string is considered deprecated[1]. This has the
side-effect of silencing a -Warray-bounds warning due to the compiler
being confused about the vlcd incrementing:

[...]
Here is the summary with links:
  - ibmvnic: Use strscpy() instead of strncpy()
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/ef2c3ddaa4ed

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