Commit 5dbdb2d8 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds
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checkpatch: prefer strscpy to strlcpy 

Prefer strscpy over the deprecated strlcpy function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/19fe91084890e2c16fe56f960de6c570a93fa99b.camel@perches.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Requested-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3a176b94

scripts/checkpatch.pl

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@@ -6646,6 +6646,12 @@ sub process { 
#			}

#		}



# strlcpy uses that should likely be strscpy

		if ($line =~ /\bstrlcpy\s*\(/) {

			WARN("STRLCPY",

			     "Prefer strscpy over strlcpy - see: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw\@mail.gmail.com/\n" . $herecurr);

		}



# typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t

		if ($perl_version_ok &&

		    defined $stat &&