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author | Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> | 2019-06-13 18:25:48 +0200 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-06-20 14:08:49 -0600 |
commit | 220ee02a0b38726a90430e94714c87550dc3d476 (patch) | |
tree | d757901fe1d8644d050a3c8afda801b8f75795d9 /Documentation/kernel-hacking | |
parent | 4ae5b8f2140d18788979153370c83cf925092b5c (diff) | |
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docs: stop suggesting strlcpy
Since strlcpy is deprecated, the documentation shouldn't suggest using
it. This patch fixes the examples to use strscpy instead. It also uses
sizeof instead of underlying constants as far as possible, to simplify
future changes to the corresponding data structures.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-hacking')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst index 519673df0e82..dc698ea456e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ to protect the cache and all the objects within it. Here's the code:: if ((obj = kmalloc(sizeof(*obj), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - strlcpy(obj->name, name, sizeof(obj->name)); + strscpy(obj->name, name, sizeof(obj->name)); obj->id = id; obj->popularity = 0; @@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ Here is the code:: } @@ -63,6 +94,7 @@ - strlcpy(obj->name, name, sizeof(obj->name)); + strscpy(obj->name, name, sizeof(obj->name)); obj->id = id; obj->popularity = 0; + obj->refcnt = 1; /* The cache holds a reference */ @@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ the lock is no longer used to protect the reference count itself. } @@ -94,7 +76,7 @@ - strlcpy(obj->name, name, sizeof(obj->name)); + strscpy(obj->name, name, sizeof(obj->name)); obj->id = id; obj->popularity = 0; - obj->refcnt = 1; /* The cache holds a reference */ |