Re: [PATCH linux-next] ALSA: control-led: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:45:51 +0100,
<yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> From: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The implementation of strscpy() is more robust and safer.
> That's now the recommended way to copy NUL-terminated strings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  sound/core/control_led.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/core/control_led.c b/sound/core/control_led.c
> index f975cc85772b..c88653c205eb 100644
> --- a/sound/core/control_led.c
> +++ b/sound/core/control_led.c
> @@ -534,8 +534,7 @@ static ssize_t set_led_id(struct snd_ctl_led_card *led_card, const char *buf, si
>  	struct snd_ctl_elem_id id;
>  	int err;
> 
> -	strncpy(buf2, buf, len);
> -	buf2[len] = '\0';
> +	strncpy(buf2, buf, len + 1);

Still using strncpy()...?


thanks,

Takashi