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David Herrmann
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[ Upstream commit4d26d1d1e8] This reverts commit336fd4f5f2. Please note that `strlcpy()` does *NOT* do what you think it does. strlcpy() *ALWAYS* reads the full input string, regardless of the 'length' parameter. That is, if the input is not zero-terminated, strlcpy() will *READ* beyond input boundaries. It does this, because it always returns the size it *would* copy if the target was big enough, not the truncated size it actually copied. The original code was perfectly fine. The hid device is zero-initialized and the strncpy() functions copied up to n-1 characters. The result is always zero-terminated this way. This is the third time someone tried to replace strncpy with strlcpy in this function, and gets it wrong. I now added a comment that should at least make people reconsider. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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