From: Marcelo Moreira <marcelomoreira1905@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 22:17:07 +0000 (-0300)
Subject: xfs: Replace strncpy with memcpy
X-Git-Tag: v6.18-rc1~226^2~37
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=33ddc796ecbd50cd6211aa9e9eddbf4567038b49;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

xfs: Replace strncpy with memcpy

The changes modernizes the code by aligning it with current kernel best
practices. It improves code clarity and consistency, as strncpy is deprecated
as explained in Documentation/process/deprecated.rst. This change does
not alter the functionality or introduce any behavioral changes.

Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Moreira <marcelomoreira1905@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/symlink_repair.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/symlink_repair.c
index 953ce7be78dc2..5902398185a89 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/symlink_repair.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/symlink_repair.c
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ xrep_symlink_salvage_inline(
 		return 0;
 
 	nr = min(XFS_SYMLINK_MAXLEN, xfs_inode_data_fork_size(ip));
-	strncpy(target_buf, ifp->if_data, nr);
+	memcpy(target_buf, ifp->if_data, nr);
 	return nr;
 }