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`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.
We expect netdev->name to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with
`strlen` and format strings:
| if (strlen(netdev->name) < (IFNAMSIZ - 5)) {
| sprintf(adapter->tx_ring->name, "%s-tx-0", netdev->name);
Moreover, we do not need NUL-padding as netdev is already
zero-allocated:
| netdev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(struct igbvf_adapter));
...
alloc_etherdev() -> alloc_etherdev_mq() -> alloc_etherdev_mqs() ->
alloc_netdev_mqs() ...
| p = kvzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);
Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to
the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer
without unnecessarily NUL-padding.
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Tested-by: Pucha Himasekhar Reddy <himasekharx.reddy.pucha@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017190411.2199743-9-jacob.e.keller@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Linux kernel
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