From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Cc: linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix incorrect usage of strncpy and strncat in i8042_pnp_kbd_probe(); drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 16:08:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d120d5000711051308p62094becnce4fdb57cb30687a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <472F7C02.9040600@tiscali.nl>
Hi Roel,
On Nov 5, 2007 3:24 PM, Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> See http://www.gratisoft.us/todd/papers/strlcpy.html
> --
> Fix incorrect length argument for strncpy and strncat by replacing them with
What is incorrect about the argument?
> respectively strlcpy and strlcat
I will gladly take a patch replacing strncat with strlcat but don't
error out if the buffer is too small - it is oK if PNP name is printed
truncated, it does not affect KBC operations.
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-05 20:24 [PATCH] Fix incorrect usage of strncpy and strncat in i8042_pnp_kbd_probe(); drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h Roel Kluin
2007-11-05 21:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2007-11-05 22:30 ` Roel Kluin
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