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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] iio: sx9324: avoid copying property strings
On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:53:28PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> We're doing some needless string copies when trying to assign the proper
> `prop` string. We can make `prop` a const char* and simply assign to
> string literals.
>
> For the case where a format string is used, let's allocate some memory
> via kasprintf() and point prop to it.
>
> This also cleans up some deprecated strncpy() uses [1].
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>

Looks like a reasonable way to go.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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Kees Cook

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