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Date:   Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:43:39 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To:     John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc:     yang.yang29@zte.com.cn, senozhatsky@chromium.org,
        rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        xu.panda@zte.com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] printk: use strscpy() to instead of strlcpy()
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On Wed 2022-11-30 10:17:07, John Ogness wrote:
> On 2022-11-30, <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> wrote:
> > From: Xu Panda <xu.panda@zte.com.cn>
> >
> > The implementation of strscpy() is more robust and safer.
> > That's now the recommended way to copy NUL terminated strings.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <xu.panda@zte.com.cn>
> > Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com>
> 
> This looks fine, but I am wondering if we should also replace all
> strncpy() usage as well. AFAICT they can all be replaced. It would also
> avoid the manual termination in console_setup().

I agree that it would be nice to replace strncpy() as well.
But it might be done in a separate patch.

Yang, Xu, would you like to do it, please?

Best Regards,
Petr