Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com> writes:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> `make_first_field()` should use similar implementation to `make_field()`
> due to memcpy having more obvious behavior here. The end result yields
> the same behavior as the previous `strncpy`-based implementation
> including the NUL-padding.
>
> Link: 
> www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings[1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-harden...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com>
> ---
> Note:
> This follows up on a previous RFC which can be found here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230811-strncpy-arch-powerpc-platforms-ps3-v1-0-301052a56...@google.com/
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/repository.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

This looks good to me. I'll pick this up directly, Geoff let me know if
this breaks something somehow.

cheers

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