From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
To: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix NUL termination of strncpy
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:52:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B019F52.50509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B018405.2030408@gmail.com>
Ensure the copied strings are NUL terminated.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
---
> Rationale (please correct me if I'm wrong):
>
> For a larger source string, strncpy only NUL terminates when
> the size argument is _less_ than sizeof(destination string).
> strlcpy does this when it equals sizeof (dest), but does not
> overwrite NULs in the higher chars.
>
> Because cpumask is global I used strncpy, for the extra NULs.
> devname is local so I think strlcpy can be used.
> For {device,hwtstamp}.ifr_name I thought the strlcpy could
> be used since ifr_name is zeroed upon creation of device and
> hwtstamp.
>
> Oh, and the parenthesis in radiotap-headers.txt should not
> be there.
See http://markmail.org/message/5ckmbipstgslzolf
(To David Wagner: this was what you meant.)
I forgot strlcpy is not present in old glibc versions,
please use this one instead.
Roel
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c | 2 +-
Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c | 2 +-
| 2 +-
.../networking/timestamping/timestamping.c | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
index 6e25c26..4d71b0e 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
err(1, "Invalid rcv buf size\n");
break;
case 'm':
- strncpy(cpumask, optarg, sizeof(cpumask));
+ strncpy(cpumask, optarg, sizeof(cpumask) - 1);
maskset = 1;
printf("cpumask %s maskset %d\n", cpumask, maskset);
break;
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c b/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c
index 681ec22..fbcb585 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ int set_unload_heads_path(char *device)
if (strlen(device) <= 5 || strncmp(device, "/dev/", 5) != 0)
return -EINVAL;
- strncpy(devname, device + 5, sizeof(devname));
+ strncpy(devname, device + 5, sizeof(devname) - 1);
snprintf(unload_heads_path, sizeof(unload_heads_path),
"/sys/block/%s/device/unload_heads", devname);
--git a/Documentation/networking/radiotap-headers.txt b/Documentation/networking/radiotap-headers.txt
index 953331c..447e004 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/radiotap-headers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/radiotap-headers.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ int MyFunction(u8 * buf, int buflen)
case IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_ANTENNA:
/* radiotap uses 0 for 1st ant */
- antenna = *iterator.this_arg);
+ antenna = *iterator.this_arg;
break;
case IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DBM_TX_POWER:
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c b/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c
index a7936fe..bec1f9c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c
+++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c
@@ -374,12 +374,12 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
bail("socket");
memset(&device, 0, sizeof(device));
- strncpy(device.ifr_name, interface, sizeof(device.ifr_name));
+ strncpy(device.ifr_name, interface, sizeof(device.ifr_name) - 1);
if (ioctl(sock, SIOCGIFADDR, &device) < 0)
bail("getting interface IP address");
memset(&hwtstamp, 0, sizeof(hwtstamp));
- strncpy(hwtstamp.ifr_name, interface, sizeof(hwtstamp.ifr_name));
+ strncpy(hwtstamp.ifr_name, interface, sizeof(hwtstamp.ifr_name) - 1);
hwtstamp.ifr_data = (void *)&hwconfig;
memset(&hwconfig, 0, sizeof(hwconfig));
hwconfig.tx_type =
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-16 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-16 16:55 [PATCH] Documentation: Fix NUL termination of strncpy Roel Kluin
2009-11-16 18:52 ` Roel Kluin [this message]
2009-11-16 21:24 ` Roel Kluin
2009-11-17 12:25 ` Pádraig Brady
2009-11-17 16:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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