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Date:   Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:59:58 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To:     Calvince Otieno <calvncce@gmail.com>
Cc:     outreachy@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Luke Koch <lu.ale.koch@gmail.com>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
        Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] staging: wlan-ng: replace  strncpy() with strscpy()
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On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 12:54:26PM +0300, Calvince Otieno wrote:
> Checkpatch suggests the use of  strscpy() instead of strncpy().
> The advantages are that it always adds a NUL terminator and it prevents
> a read overflow if the src string is not properly terminated.  One
> potential disadvantage is that it doesn't zero pad the string like
> strncpy() does.
> 
> In this code, strscpy() and strncpy() are equivalent and it does not
> affect runtime behavior.  The string is zeroed on the line before
> using memset().  The resulting string was always NUL terminated and
> PRISM2_USB_FWFILE is string literal "prism2_ru.fw" so it's NUL
> terminated.
> 
> However, even though using strscpy() does not fix any bugs, it's
> still nicer and makes checkpatch happy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Calvince Otieno <calvncce@gmail.com>
> ---
> Patch version v4:
> 	Provide a valid description of the patch

Good.

However, you've still included the v1 patch...  See below.  Don't do
that.

regards,
dan carpenter

> Patch version v1:
>         Replacing strncpy() with strscpy()
> 
>  drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
> index 5d03b2b9aab4..57a99dd12143 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
> @@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ static int plugimage(struct imgchunk *fchunk, unsigned int nfchunks,
> 
>                 if (j == -1) {  /* plug the filename */
>                         memset(dest, 0, s3plug[i].len);
> -                       strncpy(dest, PRISM2_USB_FWFILE, s3plug[i].len - 1);
> +                       strscpy(dest, PRISM2_USB_FWFILE, s3plug[i].len - 1);
>                 } else {        /* plug a PDR */
>                         memcpy(dest, &pda->rec[j]->data, s3plug[i].len);
>                 }
> 
> -- 
> Calvince Otieno
>