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Azeem Shaikh authored
strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
This read may exceed the destination size limit.
This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
strlcpy() here with strscpy().

Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89



Signed-off-by: default avatarAzeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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