On Mar 27, 2025, at 00:17, Kent Overstreet <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 09:19:06PM +0530, Bharadwaj Raju wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM Kent Overstreet >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Or better, a new helper: when we're copying to a fixed size buffer we >>> really want to zero out the rest of the buffer - we don't just want a >>> single terminating nul. >> >> I believe strscpy_pad does this? >> >> https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/kernel-api.html#c.strscpy_pad > > almost, we don't want the 'required nul termination'; that's a > requirement at least for disk labels where we need to preserve existing > behaviour
memcpy_and_pad :)
