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diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst index a6e36d9c3d14..c8fd53a11a20 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst @@ -138,17 +138,20 @@ be NUL terminated. This can lead to various linear read overflows and other misbehavior due to the missing termination. It also NUL-pads the destination buffer if the source contents are shorter than the destination buffer size, which may be a needless performance penalty -for callers using only NUL-terminated strings. The safe replacement is +for callers using only NUL-terminated strings. + +When the destination is required to be NUL-terminated, the replacement is strscpy(), though care must be given to any cases where the return value of strncpy() was used, since strscpy() does not return a pointer to the destination, but rather a count of non-NUL bytes copied (or negative errno when it truncates). Any cases still needing NUL-padding should instead use strscpy_pad(). -If a caller is using non-NUL-terminated strings, strncpy() can -still be used, but destinations should be marked with the `__nonstring +If a caller is using non-NUL-terminated strings, strtomem() should be +used, and the destinations should be marked with the `__nonstring <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html>`_ -attribute to avoid future compiler warnings. +attribute to avoid future compiler warnings. For cases still needing +NUL-padding, strtomem_pad() can be used. strlcpy() --------- |