From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
To: "markus@trippelsdorf.de" <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
"axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Remove leading whitespace and trailing newline in elevator switch error message
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 16:52:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1494262353.2591.11.camel@sandisk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170508164836.GA17152@x4>
On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 18:48 +0200, markus@trippelsdorf.de wrote:
> On 2017.05.08 at 15:47 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Sat, 2017-05-06 at 07:22 +0200, markus@trippelsdorf.de wrote:
> > > - ret =3D __elevator_change(q, name);
> > > + strlcpy(elevator_name, skip_spaces(name), sizeof(elevator_name));
> >=20
> > Please include the version number of a patch in the e-mail subject line=
when
> > posting a second or later version. Regarding the strlcpy() call, in the
> > FreeBSD strlcpy() man page I found the following: "If the src and dst s=
trings
> > overlap, the behavior is undefined." Since the Linux kernel implementat=
ion of
> > strlcpy() uses memcpy() and since the ANSI C standard does not allow th=
at
> > memcpy() input and output buffers overlap, please rework this code. See=
e.g.
> > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/memcpy.html
>=20
> I don't see how src and dst could possibly overlap here.
Hello Markus,
Sorry - I misread your patch. Since that was the only comment I had:
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>=
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-08 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-06 5:22 [PATCH] block: Remove leading whitespace and trailing newline in elevator switch error message markus
2017-05-08 15:47 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-08 16:48 ` markus
2017-05-08 16:52 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2017-05-08 16:53 ` Jens Axboe
2017-05-09 2:18 ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2017-05-09 2:22 ` Jens Axboe
2017-05-09 4:42 ` markus
2017-05-09 14:57 ` Jens Axboe
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