Re: [patch v2] cx231xx: card->driver "Conexant cx231xx Audio" too long

[Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:04:55PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:43:47 -0700,
> Joe Perches wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 18:39 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > card->driver is 15 characters and a NULL, the original code could 
> > > cause a buffer overflow.
> > 
> > > In version 2, I used a better name that Takashi Iwai suggested.
> > 
> > Perhaps it's better to use strncpy as well.
> 
> strlcpy() would be safer :)
> 
> But, in such a case, we want rather that the error is notified at
> build time.
> 
> Maybe a macro like below would be helpful to catch such bugs?
> 
> #define COPY_STRING(buf, src)						\
> 	do {								\
> 		if (__builtin_constant_p(src))				\
> 			BUILD_BUG_ON(strlen(src) >= sizeof(buf));	\
> 		strcpy(buf, src);					\
> 	} while (0)
> 
> and used like:
> 
> struct foo {
> 	char foo[5];
> } x;
> 
> COPY_STRING(x.foo, "OK"); // OK
> COPY_STRING(x.foo, "1234567890"); // NG

why not define strcpy this way?

Marcin