Commit 5df496e9 authored by Marcelo Moreira's avatar Marcelo Moreira Committed by Christoph Hellwig
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nvmet: replace strncpy with strscpy



The strncpy() function is deprecated for NUL-terminated strings as
explained in the "strncpy() on NUL-terminated strings" section of
Documentation/process/deprecated.rst.

The key issues are:
- strncpy() fails to guarantee NULL-termination when source > destination
- it unnecessarily zero-pads short strings, causing performance overhead

strscpy() is the proper replacement because:
- it guarantees NULL-termination
- it avoids redundant zero-padding
- it aligns with current kernel string-copying best practice

memcpy() was rejected because:
- NQN buffers (subsysnqn/hostnqn) are treated as NULL-terminated strings:
  - strcmp() usage in nvmet_host_allowed() (discovery.c)
  - strscpy() to copy subsysnqn in nvmet_execute_disc_identify()

seq_buf wasn't used because:
- this is a simple fixed-size buffer copy
- there is no need for progressive string construction features

Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcelo Moreira <marcelomoreira1905@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent 674f872b
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