This got converted from strncpy to strlcpy but it's now not necessary to use one character less than the actual size.
Perhaps the sizeof() - 1 is now not correct and it should use strscpy and a normal sizeof. from: commit 7eb74ff891b4e94b8bac48f648a21e4b94ddee64 Author: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.willi...@intel.com> Date: Mon Aug 20 08:12:30 2018 -0700 i40e: use correct length for strncpy and commit 4ff2d8540321324e04c1306f85d4fe68a0c2d0ae Author: Patryk Małek <patryk.ma...@intel.com> Date: Tue Oct 30 10:50:44 2018 -0700 i40e: Replace strncpy with strlcpy to ensure null termination --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c index 9bf1ad4319f5..627b1c02bb4b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c @@ -700,8 +700,8 @@ static long i40e_ptp_create_clock(struct i40e_pf *pf) if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(pf->ptp_clock)) return 0; - strlcpy(pf->ptp_caps.name, i40e_driver_name, - sizeof(pf->ptp_caps.name) - 1); + strscpy(pf->ptp_caps.name, i40e_driver_name, sizeof(pf->ptp_caps.name)); + pf->ptp_caps.owner = THIS_MODULE; pf->ptp_caps.max_adj = 999999999; pf->ptp_caps.n_ext_ts = 0;