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Date:   Mon, 30 Oct 2023 07:13:17 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Nancy Nyambura <nicymimz@gmail.com>
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        linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rts5208: Replace strncpy() with strscpy() for
 appropriate string copying in rtsx_scsi line 524 warning: found by
 checkpatch.pl script
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On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 10:16:42PM +0300, Nancy Nyambura wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Nancy Nyambura <nicymimz@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_scsi.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_scsi.c b/drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_scsi.c
> index 08bd768ad34d..52324b8ebbc7 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_scsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_scsi.c
> @@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ static int inquiry(struct scsi_cmnd *srb, struct rtsx_chip *chip)
>  
>  	if (sendbytes > 8) {
>  		memcpy(buf, inquiry_buf, 8);
> -		strncpy(buf + 8, inquiry_string, sendbytes - 8);
> +		strscpy(buf + 8, inquiry_string, sendbytes - 8);
>  		if (pro_formatter_flag) {
>  			/* Additional Length */
>  			buf[4] = 0x33;
> -- 
> 2.40.1
> 
> 

Hi,

This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman.  You have sent him
a patch that has triggered this response.  He used to manually respond
to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept
writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was
created.  Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem
in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux
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