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From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.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: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:25:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B02961F.8020108@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B019F52.50509@gmail.com>

Roel Kluin wrote:
> Ensure the copied strings are NUL terminated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
> ---
>> Rationale (please correct me if I'm wrong):
> 
> 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);

You need to explicitly NUL terminate strncpy():
http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/gcc/string_buffers.html

cheers,
Pádraig.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-17 12:25 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
2009-11-16 21:24   ` Roel Kluin
2009-11-17 12:25   ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2009-11-17 16:41     ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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