[Bug 2073511] Re: r8168 FTBFS with linux-hwe-6.8

[Paolo Pisati]

$ dkms status | grep r8
r8168/8.049.02, 5.15.0-118-generic, x86_64: installed
r8168/8.049.02, 6.8.0-40-generic, x86_64: installed

GA:
$ lsmod | grep r8
r8168                 552960  0

HWE:
$ lsmod | grep r8
r8168                 630784  0

** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-jammy
** Tags added: verification-done-jammy

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Title:
  r8168 FTBFS with linux-hwe-6.8

Status in r8168 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in r8168 source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  ...
  /home/ubuntu/dkms/r8168/r8168-8.049.02/src/r8168_n.c: In function ‘rtl8168_get_drvinfo’:
  /home/ubuntu/dkms/r8168/r8168-8.049.02/src/r8168_n.c:5124:17: error: implicit declaration of function ‘strlcpy’; did you mean ‘strscpy’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
   5124 |                 strlcpy(info->fw_version, rtl_fw->version,
        |                 ^~~~~~~
  ...

  [Fix]

  Apply the attached fix.

  [How to test]

  Install, rebuild and load the fixed package with GA and HWE kernels.

  [Regression potential]

  None, the fix replaces an occurrence of the deprecated strlcpy() with
  strscpy().

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