Commit 6591771
i2c: powermac: replace deprecated strncpy
`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
We should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces.
`info.type` is expected to be NUL-terminated judging by its use in
`i2c_new_client_device()` wherein it is used to populate `client->name`:
| strscpy(client->name, info->type, sizeof(client->name));
NUL-padding is not required and even if it was, `client` is already
zero-initialized.
Considering the two points from above, a suitable replacement is
`strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the
destination buffer without unnecessarily NUL-padding.
Link: https://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: KSPP#90
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>1 parent e2def33 commit 6591771
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