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SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: prefer strscpy over strncpy
On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 09:51:14AM +0200, Michael Straube wrote:
> Replace strncpy with strscpy in two places where the destination buffer
> should be NUL-terminated. Found by checkpatch.
>
> WARNING: Prefer strscpy, strscpy_pad, or __nonstring over strncpy - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90

If a global search/replace could be done, it would have happend a long
time ago.

How was this tested? The functions work differently, are you sure there
is no change in functionality here?

thanks,

greg k-h

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