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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:59:43 -0800
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] strlcpy removal for v6.8-rc1
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 14:53, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I should have called that out in the PR, but the commit itself
> had my rationale for intentionally leaving those in:
>
>     Leave mentions in Documentation (about its deprecation), and in
>     checkpatch.pl (to help migrate host-only tools/ usage).

Hmm. Yeah, I guess the host tooling is an issue, although there
strlcpy makes a lot more sense since I think it exists in various user
space libraries (while strscpy() is kernel-only).

> If you feel like that's not right, I can either respin or send a
> follow-up patch?

Oh, I already took the pull request, I was just reacting to leftovers.
This is not a big deal.

              Linus