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Commit 4108d141 authored by Justin Stitt's avatar Justin Stitt Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/hpet: Refactor code using deprecated strncpy() interface to use strscpy()



`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].

A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
_not_ the case for `strncpy`!

In this case, it is a simple swap from `strncpy` to `strscpy`. There is
one slight difference, though. If NUL-padding is a functional
requirement here we should opt for `strscpy_pad`. It seems like this
shouldn't be needed as I see no obvious signs of any padding being
required.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJustin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings[1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230822-strncpy-arch-x86-kernel-hpet-v1-1-2c7d3be86f4a@google.com
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