From: "Kip Walker" <kwalker@broadcom.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: "Ralf Baechle" <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: strncpy etc.
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:29:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DD969DC.DC6D31BA@broadcom.com> (raw)
Looks like a typo in include/asm-mips/string.h has strncpy returning the
wrong thing -- a pointer to the END of the destination string, rather
than the beginning of the destination string.
Patch for 2.4 is below:
Index: include/asm-mips/string.h
===================================================================
RCS file:
/projects/bbp/cvsroot/systemsw/linux/src/kernel/include/asm-mips/string.h,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 string.h
--- string.h 2002/09/05 22:15:51 1.6
+++ string.h 2002/11/18 22:27:15
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
: "0" (__dest), "1" (__src), "2" (__n)
: "memory");
- return __dest;
+ return __xdest;
}
#define __HAVE_ARCH_STRCMP
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