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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 great care taken to ensure that the destination buffer would be NUL-terminated through the use of `len - 1` ensuring that the previously zero-initialized buffer would not overwrite the last NUL byte. This means that there's no bug here. However, `strscpy` will add a mandatory NUL byte to the destination buffer as promised by the following `strscpy` implementation [3]: | /* Hit buffer length without finding a NUL; force NUL-termination. */ | if (res) | dest[res-1] = '\0'; This means we can lose the `- 1` which clears up whats happening here. All the while, we get one step closer to eliminating the ambiguous `strncpy` api in favor of its less ambiguous replacement like `strscpy`, `strscpy_pad`, `strtomem` and `strtomem_pad` amongst others. [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> Acked-by: Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230727-sound-soc-fsl-v1-1-4fc0ed7e0366@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.