Patch "tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tile-use-global-strscpy-rather-than-private-copy.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 30059d494a72603d066baf55c748803df968aa08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:07:38 -0400
Subject: tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy

From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>

commit 30059d494a72603d066baf55c748803df968aa08 upstream.

Now that strscpy() is a standard API, remove the local copy.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/tile/gxio/mpipe.c |   33 ++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/tile/gxio/mpipe.c
+++ b/arch/tile/gxio/mpipe.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
 
 #include <gxio/iorpc_globals.h>
 #include <gxio/iorpc_mpipe.h>
@@ -29,32 +30,6 @@
 /* HACK: Avoid pointless "shadow" warnings. */
 #define link link_shadow
 
-/**
- * strscpy - Copy a C-string into a sized buffer, but only if it fits
- * @dest: Where to copy the string to
- * @src: Where to copy the string from
- * @size: size of destination buffer
- *
- * Use this routine to avoid copying too-long strings.
- * The routine returns the total number of bytes copied
- * (including the trailing NUL) or zero if the buffer wasn't
- * big enough.  To ensure that programmers pay attention
- * to the return code, the destination has a single NUL
- * written at the front (if size is non-zero) when the
- * buffer is not big enough.
- */
-static size_t strscpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
-{
-	size_t len = strnlen(src, size) + 1;
-	if (len > size) {
-		if (size)
-			dest[0] = '\0';
-		return 0;
-	}
-	memcpy(dest, src, len);
-	return len;
-}
-
 int gxio_mpipe_init(gxio_mpipe_context_t *context, unsigned int mpipe_index)
 {
 	char file[32];
@@ -537,7 +512,7 @@ int gxio_mpipe_link_instance(const char
 	if (!context)
 		return GXIO_ERR_NO_DEVICE;
 
-	if (strscpy(name.name, link_name, sizeof(name.name)) == 0)
+	if (strscpy(name.name, link_name, sizeof(name.name)) < 0)
 		return GXIO_ERR_NO_DEVICE;
 
 	return gxio_mpipe_info_instance_aux(context, name);
@@ -555,7 +530,7 @@ int gxio_mpipe_link_enumerate_mac(int id
 
 	rv = gxio_mpipe_info_enumerate_aux(context, idx, &name, &mac);
 	if (rv >= 0) {
-		if (strscpy(link_name, name.name, sizeof(name.name)) == 0)
+		if (strscpy(link_name, name.name, sizeof(name.name)) < 0)
 			return GXIO_ERR_INVAL_MEMORY_SIZE;
 		memcpy(link_mac, mac.mac, sizeof(mac.mac));
 	}
@@ -572,7 +547,7 @@ int gxio_mpipe_link_open(gxio_mpipe_link
 	_gxio_mpipe_link_name_t name;
 	int rv;
 
-	if (strscpy(name.name, link_name, sizeof(name.name)) == 0)
+	if (strscpy(name.name, link_name, sizeof(name.name)) < 0)
 		return GXIO_ERR_NO_DEVICE;
 
 	rv = gxio_mpipe_link_open_aux(context, name, flags);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cmetcalf@ezchip.com are

queue-3.18/strscpy-zero-any-trailing-garbage-bytes-in-the-destination.patch
queue-3.18/make-asm-word-at-a-time.h-available-on-all-architectures.patch
queue-3.18/word-at-a-time.h-support-zero_bytemask-on-alpha-and-tile.patch
queue-3.18/tile-use-global-strscpy-rather-than-private-copy.patch
queue-3.18/tile-add-asm-word-at-a-time.h-and-enable-support-functions.patch
queue-3.18/string-provide-strscpy.patch
queue-3.18/arch-powerpc-provide-zero_bytemask-for-big-endian.patch