Hi,

On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 04:00:57PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> 
> gcc-9 warns about a possibly non-terminated string copy:
> 
> kernel/trace/blktrace.c: In function 'do_blk_trace_setup':
> kernel/trace/blktrace.c:527:2: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 32 equals 
> destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
> 
> Newer versions are fine here because they see the following explicit
> nul-termination. Using strscpy_pad() avoids the warning and
> simplifies the code a little. The padding helps  give a clean
> buffer to userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Justin Stitt <[email protected]>

> ---
> v2: actually use padding version of strscpy.
> ---
>  kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> index d5d94510afd3..8fd292d34d89 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> @@ -524,8 +524,7 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, 
> char *name, dev_t dev,
>       if (!buts->buf_size || !buts->buf_nr)
>               return -EINVAL;
>  
> -     strncpy(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE);
> -     buts->name[BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE - 1] = '\0';
> +     strscpy_pad(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE);
>  
>       /*
>        * some device names have larger paths - convert the slashes
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 

Thanks
Justin

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