From: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Fix strncpy usage
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:15:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12953a47-a6a7-5f70-a46c-c95f8c424d11@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1dc025d5-366c-ae13-259e-dae543e6ec52@debian.org>
On 06/22/2018 09:43 AM, Breno Leitao wrote:
> If you don't mind, I would solve this problem slightly different, as it seems
> to be more readable.
>
> - strncpy(prog, argv[0], strlen(argv[0]));
> + if (strlen(argv[0]) >= LEN_MAX){
> + fprintf(stderr, "Very big executable name: %s\n", argv[0]);
"Very big" is an observation. "Too big" indicates a problem better. Or, more explicitly "Executable name is too long".
PC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-22 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-20 22:51 [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Fix strncpy usage Breno Leitao
2018-06-21 23:18 ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-06-22 14:43 ` Breno Leitao
2018-06-22 14:51 ` Christophe LEROY
2018-06-23 1:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-06-22 15:15 ` Paul Clarke [this message]
2018-06-22 21:01 ` Al Dunsmuir
2018-06-23 1:10 ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-06-25 21:21 ` Breno Leitao
2018-06-25 21:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Breno Leitao
2018-06-26 5:24 ` Michael Ellerman
2018-06-26 13:13 ` Breno Leitao
2018-06-26 13:20 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Breno Leitao
2018-06-26 13:20 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] selftests/powerpc: Fix typos Breno Leitao
2018-07-11 13:24 ` [v3,1/2] selftests/powerpc: Fix strncpy usage Michael Ellerman
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