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From: "Tkaczyk, Mariusz" <mariusz.tkaczyk@linux.intel.com>
To: Nigel Croxon <ncroxon@redhat.com>,
	neilb@suse.de, jes@trained-monkey.org, xni@redhat.com,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Fix buffer size warning for strcpy
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 08:55:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d28eff3-d693-92c5-6e84-54846b36a480@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210819131017.2511208-1-ncroxon@redhat.com>

On 19.08.2021 15:10, Nigel Croxon wrote:

> +	memset(ve->name, '\0', sizeof(ve->name));
> +	if (name) {
> +		int l = strlen(ve->name);
> +		if (l > 16)
> +			l = 16;
> +		memcpy(ve->name, name, l);
> +	}

What about:
if (name)
	/*
	 * Name might not be null terminated.
	 */
	strncpy(ve->name, name, sizeof(ve->name));
else
	memset(ve->name, '\0', sizeof(ve->name));

If size is less than sizeof(ve->name) then strncpy will automatically
fill rest with "\0".

Mariusz

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-23  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-19 13:10 [PATCH V2] Fix buffer size warning for strcpy Nigel Croxon
2021-08-19 22:16 ` NeilBrown
2021-08-22 14:26   ` Gal Ofri
2021-08-22 14:30     ` Gal Ofri
2021-08-22 22:05     ` NeilBrown
2021-08-23  6:55 ` Tkaczyk, Mariusz [this message]
2021-08-23 22:46   ` NeilBrown
2021-08-24  7:36     ` hillr

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