[PATCH 10/17] net/ionic: replace strncpy with strlcpy

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Jun 23 18:51:40 CEST 2026


Replace strncpy() with safer strlcpy() which always null-terminates.

Fixes: 5ef518098ec6 ("net/ionic: register and initialize adapter")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ionic/ionic_main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ionic/ionic_main.c b/drivers/net/ionic/ionic_main.c
index 814bb3b8f4..d5545b1ecb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ionic/ionic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ionic/ionic_main.c
@@ -393,8 +393,8 @@ ionic_identify(struct ionic_adapter *adapter)
 	ident->drv.kernel_ver = 0;
 	snprintf(ident->drv.kernel_ver_str,
 		sizeof(ident->drv.kernel_ver_str), "DPDK");
-	strncpy(ident->drv.driver_ver_str, IONIC_DRV_VERSION,
-		sizeof(ident->drv.driver_ver_str) - 1);
+	strlcpy(ident->drv.driver_ver_str, IONIC_DRV_VERSION,
+		sizeof(ident->drv.driver_ver_str));
 
 	nwords = RTE_MIN(drv_size, cmd_size);
 	for (i = 0; i < nwords; i++)
-- 
2.53.0



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