[PATCH v2] staging: qlge/qlge_ethtool.c: Switch from strlcpy to strscpy

Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi memxor at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 04:48:28 UTC 2021


strlcpy is marked as deprecated in Documentation/process/deprecated.rst,
and there is no functional difference when the caller expects truncation
(when not checking the return value). strscpy is relatively better as it
also avoids scanning the whole source string.

This silences the related checkpatch warnings from:
5dbdb2d87c29 ("checkpatch: prefer strscpy to strlcpy")

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
index a28f0254c..635d3338f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
@@ -417,15 +417,15 @@ static void ql_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *ndev,
 {
 	struct ql_adapter *qdev = netdev_priv(ndev);
 
-	strlcpy(drvinfo->driver, qlge_driver_name, sizeof(drvinfo->driver));
-	strlcpy(drvinfo->version, qlge_driver_version,
+	strscpy(drvinfo->driver, qlge_driver_name, sizeof(drvinfo->driver));
+	strscpy(drvinfo->version, qlge_driver_version,
 		sizeof(drvinfo->version));
 	snprintf(drvinfo->fw_version, sizeof(drvinfo->fw_version),
 		 "v%d.%d.%d",
 		 (qdev->fw_rev_id & 0x00ff0000) >> 16,
 		 (qdev->fw_rev_id & 0x0000ff00) >> 8,
 		 (qdev->fw_rev_id & 0x000000ff));
-	strlcpy(drvinfo->bus_info, pci_name(qdev->pdev),
+	strscpy(drvinfo->bus_info, pci_name(qdev->pdev),
 		sizeof(drvinfo->bus_info));
 }
 
-- 
2.29.2



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