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`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]. A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is _not_ always the case for `strncpy`! In this case, though, there was care taken to ensure that the destination buffer would be NUL-terminated. The destination buffer is zero-initialized and each `pm860x->name[i]` has a size of `MAX_NAME_LENGTH + 1`. This means that there is unlikely to be a bug here. However, in an attempt to eliminate the usage of the `strncpy` API as well as disambiguate implementations, replacements such as: `strscpy`, `strscpy_pad`, `strtomem` and `strtomem_pad` should be preferred. We are able to eliminate the need for `len + 1` since `strscpy` guarantees NUL-termination for its destination buffer as per its implementation [3]: | /* Hit buffer length without finding a NUL; force NUL-termination. */ | if (res) | dest[res-1] = '\0'; [1]: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [2]: manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [3]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.3/source/lib/string.c#L183 Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230727-sound-soc-codecs-v1-1-562fa2836bf4@google.com Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.