From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/cell: strncpy does not null terminate string
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:56:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907171756.22224.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A608A69.4060204@gmail.com>
On Friday 17 July 2009, Roel Kluin wrote:
>
> static int __init celleb_machine_type_hack(char *ptr)
> {
> - strncpy(celleb_machine_type, ptr, sizeof(celleb_machine_type));
> + strlcpy(celleb_machine_type, ptr, sizeof(celleb_machine_type));
> celleb_machine_type[sizeof(celleb_machine_type)-1] = 0;
> return 0;
This still is pointless as long as you keep the explicit null-termination
in the next line, the patch still doesn't change anything significant.
The file is maintained by Ishizaki Kou, if he would prefer to take a
patch replacing the two lines with one, that's fine with me, otherwise
I just wouldn't bother. You still only gain a few bytes of inittext, but
that is discarded at boot time.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-17 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-17 12:41 [PATCH] powerpc/cell: strncpy does not null terminate string Roel Kluin
2009-07-17 14:27 ` Roel Kluin
2009-07-17 15:56 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-07-21 9:31 ` Ken Kawakami
2009-07-17 15:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-17 15:19 ` roel kluin
2009-07-17 15:35 ` [PATCH] dm: " Roel Kluin
2009-07-22 12:29 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2009-07-17 15:41 ` [PATCH] media: " Roel Kluin
2009-07-17 15:54 ` Roel Kluin
2009-07-17 18:01 ` [PATCH] b44: " Roel Kluin
2009-07-20 15:04 ` David Miller
2009-07-21 10:17 ` [PATCH] powerpc/cell: replace strncpy by strlcpy Roel Kluin
2009-07-22 4:22 ` Ken Kawakami
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