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From: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it>
To: Eduardo Silva <eduardo.silva@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs-progs use safe string manipulation functions
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:17:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D503727.3030104@libero.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297081322.4615.10.camel@monotop>

On 02/07/2011 01:22 PM, Eduardo Silva wrote:
> Please find the attached patch which replace unsafe strcpy(3) by
> strncpy(3) functions.
> 
> regards, 
> 
> Eduardo Silva


Hi Eduardo,

even though some "strncpy" are unneeded because a check is performed
before, I fully agree that "strncpy" is better than a simple strcpy.
However I have to highlight that truncating a path without noticing may
be lead to a problem (think a delete operation applied to a shorter
path...).
So can I ask you to add some checks to your patch, in order to warn the
user that the path is too long ?

Regards
G.Baroncelli

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-07 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-07 12:22 [PATCH] Btrfs-progs use safe string manipulation functions Eduardo Silva
2011-02-07 18:17 ` Goffredo Baroncelli [this message]
2011-02-10 11:08 ` Thomas Bellman
2011-02-10 11:21   ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 11:37     ` Jeremy Sanders
2011-02-10 11:39       ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 13:29         ` Eduardo Silva
2011-02-10 13:34           ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 13:41             ` Eduardo Silva
     [not found]             ` <1297345079.28159.14.camel@monotop>
2011-02-10 13:52               ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 14:00                 ` Eduardo Silva
2011-02-10 14:05                   ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 18:39           ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2011-02-11 12:41           ` Lars Wirzenius
2011-02-10 11:54       ` Lars Wirzenius
2011-02-10 12:27         ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 12:41           ` Thomas Bellman
2011-02-10 15:17       ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 11:49   ` Eduardo Silva

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