1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/networking/vconfig.c b/networking/vconfig.c
index 7b6c2fa04..3f12e7609 100644
--- a/networking/vconfig.c
+++ b/networking/vconfig.c
@@ -133,10 +133,7 @@ int vconfig_main(int argc, char **argv)
         if (ifr.cmd == SET_VLAN_NAME_TYPE_CMD) { /* set_name_type */
                 ifr.u.name_type = *xfind_str(name_types+1, argv[1]);
         } else {
-                if (strlen(argv[1]) >= IF_NAMESIZE) {
-                        bb_error_msg_and_die("if_name >= %d chars", IF_NAMESIZE);
-                }
-                strcpy(ifr.device1, argv[1]);
+                strncpy(ifr.device1, argv[1], IFNAMSIZ);
                 p = argv[2];
 
                 /* I suppose one could try to combine some of the function calls below,