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From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia32: strncpy does not null terminate string
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:19:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A60886E.5070106@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A60755F.4030604@gmail.com>

strlcpy() will always null terminate the string.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
---
> The proof is flawed: Global variables are automatically '\0'
> initialized.

Hmm, I see, how about using strlcpy instead?

diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/sys_ia32.c b/arch/x86/ia32/sys_ia32.c
index 085a8c3..528972f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/ia32/sys_ia32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/ia32/sys_ia32.c
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ long sys32_vm86_warning(void)
 		compat_printk(KERN_INFO
 			      "%s: vm86 mode not supported on 64 bit kernel\n",
 			      me->comm);
-		strncpy(lastcomm, me->comm, sizeof(lastcomm));
+		strlcpy(lastcomm, me->comm, sizeof(lastcomm));
 	}
 	return -ENOSYS;
 }

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-17 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-17 12:58 [PATCH] ia32: strncpy does not null terminate string Roel Kluin
2009-07-17 14:19 ` Roel Kluin [this message]
2009-07-21 18:27 ` H. Peter Anvin

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