From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
To: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/cell: strncpy does not null terminate string
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:27:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A608A69.4060204@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A607185.6020302@gmail.com>
strlcpy() will always null terminate the string.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
---
Please use this one instead
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/celleb_setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/celleb_setup.c
index 07c234f..1896cd8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/celleb_setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/celleb_setup.c
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static void celleb_show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file *m)
static int __init celleb_machine_type_hack(char *ptr)
{
- strncpy(celleb_machine_type, ptr, sizeof(celleb_machine_type));
+ strlcpy(celleb_machine_type, ptr, sizeof(celleb_machine_type));
celleb_machine_type[sizeof(celleb_machine_type)-1] = 0;
return 0;
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-17 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-17 12:41 [PATCH] powerpc/cell: strncpy does not null terminate string Roel Kluin
2009-07-17 14:27 ` Roel Kluin [this message]
2009-07-17 15:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-21 9:31 ` Ken Kawakami
2009-07-17 15:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-17 15:19 ` roel kluin
2009-07-21 10:17 ` [PATCH] powerpc/cell: replace strncpy by strlcpy Roel Kluin
2009-07-22 4:22 ` Ken Kawakami
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