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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Fix strncpy usage
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:00:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180623010023.GW16221@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9cd93c1d-c067-3a18-bfd8-fef1ef443739@c-s.fr>

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 04:51:21PM +0200, Christophe LEROY wrote:
> Le 22/06/2018 à 16:43, Breno Leitao a écrit :
> >+               fprintf(stderr, "Very big executable name: %s\n", argv[0]);
> >+               return 1;
> >+       }
> >+
> >+       strncpy(prog, argv[0], sizeof(prog) - 1);
> 
> You have checked before that argv[0] is not too long, so you should not 
> need to use strncpy(), strcpy() would do it.

If you don't care about the bytes of prog after the first zero byte, sure.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-23  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-20 22:51 [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Fix strncpy usage Breno Leitao
2018-06-21 23:18 ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-06-22 14:43   ` Breno Leitao
2018-06-22 14:51     ` Christophe LEROY
2018-06-23  1:00       ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2018-06-22 15:15     ` Paul Clarke
2018-06-22 21:01       ` Al Dunsmuir
2018-06-23  1:10     ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-06-25 21:21       ` Breno Leitao
2018-06-25 21:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Breno Leitao
2018-06-26  5:24   ` Michael Ellerman
2018-06-26 13:13     ` Breno Leitao
2018-06-26 13:20 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Breno Leitao
2018-06-26 13:20   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] selftests/powerpc: Fix typos Breno Leitao
2018-07-11 13:24   ` [v3,1/2] selftests/powerpc: Fix strncpy usage Michael Ellerman

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