strncpy is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated strings, as indicated in Documentation/process/deprecated.rst. strncpy NUL-pads the destination buffer and doesn't guarantee the destination buffer will be NUL terminated. Signed-off-by: James Flowers --- V1 -> V2: Replaced with two argument version of strscpy Note: this has only been compile tested. net/smc/smc_pnet.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/smc/smc_pnet.c b/net/smc/smc_pnet.c index 76ad29e31d60..b90337f86e83 100644 --- a/net/smc/smc_pnet.c +++ b/net/smc/smc_pnet.c @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ static int smc_pnet_add_ib(struct smc_pnettable *pnettable, char *ib_name, return -ENOMEM; new_pe->type = SMC_PNET_IB; memcpy(new_pe->pnet_name, pnet_name, SMC_MAX_PNETID_LEN); - strncpy(new_pe->ib_name, ib_name, IB_DEVICE_NAME_MAX); + strscpy(new_pe->ib_name, ib_name); new_pe->ib_port = ib_port; new_ibdev = true; -- 2.50.1