From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1 477/481] i2c: cp2615: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:47:39 +0100
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6.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>

[ Upstream commit e2def33f9ee1b1a8cda4ec5cde69840b5708f068 ]

`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].

We should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces.

We expect name to be NUL-terminated based on its numerous uses with
functions that expect NUL-terminated strings.

For example in i2c-core-base.c +1533:
| dev_dbg(&adap->dev, "adapter [%s] registered\n", adap->name);

NUL-padding is not required as `adap` is already zero-alloacted with:
| adap = devm_kzalloc(&usbif->dev, sizeof(struct i2c_adapter), GFP_KERNEL);

With the above in mind, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to
the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer
without unnecessarily NUL-padding.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: aa79f996eb41 ("i2c: cp2615: fix serial string NULL-deref at probe")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cp2615.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cp2615.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cp2615.c
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ cp2615_i2c_probe(struct usb_interface *u
 	if (!adap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	strncpy(adap->name, usbdev->serial, sizeof(adap->name) - 1);
+	strscpy(adap->name, usbdev->serial, sizeof(adap->name));
 	adap->owner = THIS_MODULE;
 	adap->dev.parent = &usbif->dev;
 	adap->dev.of_node = usbif->dev.of_node;