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strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

`desc` is expected to be NUL-terminated as evident by the manual
NUL-byte assignment. Moreover, NUL-padding does not seem to be
necessary.

The only caller of efx_mcdi_nvram_metadata() is
efx_devlink_info_nvram_partition() which provides a NULL for `desc`:
|       rc = efx_mcdi_nvram_metadata(efx, partition_type, NULL, version, NULL, 0);

Due to this, I am not sure this code is even reached but we should still
favor something other than strncpy.

Considering the above, 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>
Acked-by: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231012-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-sfc-mcdi-c-v1-1-478c8de1039d@google.com

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>