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* strncpy etc.
@ 2002-11-18 22:29 Kip Walker
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From: Kip Walker @ 2002-11-18 22:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mips; +Cc: Ralf Baechle


Looks like a typo in include/asm-mips/string.h has strncpy returning the
wrong thing -- a pointer to the END of the destination string, rather
than the beginning of the destination string.

Patch for 2.4 is below:

Index: include/asm-mips/string.h
===================================================================
RCS file:
/projects/bbp/cvsroot/systemsw/linux/src/kernel/include/asm-mips/string.h,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 string.h
--- string.h    2002/09/05 22:15:51     1.6
+++ string.h    2002/11/18 22:27:15
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
         : "0" (__dest), "1" (__src), "2" (__n)
         : "memory");
 
-  return __dest;
+  return __xdest;
 }
 
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRCMP

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