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Both `strncpy` and `strcpy` are 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` or `strcpy`! In this case, we can drop both the forced NUL-termination and the `... -1` from: | strncpy(arg, val, ACTION_LEN - 1); as `strscpy` implicitly has this behavior. Also include slight refactor to code removing possible new-line chars as per Yang Yang's work at [3]. This reduces code size and complexity by using more robust and better understood interfaces. Co-developed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com> 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://lore.kernel.org/all/202212091545310085328@zte.com.cn/ [3] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230824-strncpy-arch-x86-platform-uv-uv_nmi-v2-1-e16d9a3ec570@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.