From: Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>, <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
Firas JahJah <firasj@amazon.com>,
Yossi Leybovich <sleybo@amazon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-next] RDMA/efa: Use strscpy instead of strlcpy
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:11:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd35f82a-abd8-ff53-d8d2-0e401ec92ea0@amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210322130131.GC247894@nvidia.com>
On 22/03/2021 15:01, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 03:24:16PM +0200, Gal Pressman wrote:
>> The strlcpy function doesn't limit the source length, use the preferred
>> strscpy function instead.
>
> Why do we need to limit the source length here? Either this is a bug
> because the source string is no NULL terminated or it is OK as is?
It's not a bug as is, but it addresses checkpatch's warning:
WARNING: Prefer strscpy over strlcpy - see: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw@mail.gmail.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-22 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-16 13:24 [PATCH for-next] RDMA/efa: Use strscpy instead of strlcpy Gal Pressman
2021-03-22 13:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-22 13:11 ` Gal Pressman [this message]
2021-03-22 16:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-22 17:14 ` Gal Pressman
2021-03-23 0:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-29 7:04 ` Gal Pressman
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