* [PATCH] s390: net: ctcm_main.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy
@ 2014-07-26 14:33 Rickard Strandqvist
2014-07-29 13:11 ` Ursula Braun
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From: Rickard Strandqvist @ 2014-07-26 14:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ursula Braun, Frank Blaschka
Cc: Rickard Strandqvist, linux390, Martin Schwidefsky, Heiko Carstens,
linux-s390, linux-kernel
Replacing strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that lacks null terminate.
Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
---
drivers/s390/net/ctcm_main.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_main.c
index 03b6ad0..670fa7d 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_main.c
@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ static void channel_remove(struct channel *ch)
if (ch == NULL)
return;
- else
- strncpy(chid, ch->id, CTCM_ID_SIZE);
+
+ strlcpy(chid, ch->id, CTCM_ID_SIZE);
channel_free(ch);
while (*c) {
--
1.7.10.4
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* Re: [PATCH] s390: net: ctcm_main.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy
2014-07-26 14:33 [PATCH] s390: net: ctcm_main.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy Rickard Strandqvist
@ 2014-07-29 13:11 ` Ursula Braun
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From: Ursula Braun @ 2014-07-29 13:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rickard Strandqvist
Cc: Ursula Braun, Frank Blaschka, linux390, Martin Schwidefsky,
Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, linux-kernel
On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 16:33 +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> Replacing strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that lacks null terminate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
> ---
> drivers/s390/net/ctcm_main.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_main.c
> index 03b6ad0..670fa7d 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_main.c
> @@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ static void channel_remove(struct channel *ch)
>
> if (ch == NULL)
> return;
> - else
> - strncpy(chid, ch->id, CTCM_ID_SIZE);
> +
> + strlcpy(chid, ch->id, CTCM_ID_SIZE);
>
> channel_free(ch);
> while (*c) {
It is guaranteed that the string ch->id always fits into CTCM_ID_SIZE.
What's in this case the benefit of replacing strncpy() by strlcpy()
here?
I agree to remove the useless "else".
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* Re: [PATCH] s390: net: ctcm_main.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy
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@ 2014-07-29 14:35 ` Heiko Carstens
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From: Heiko Carstens @ 2014-07-29 14:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rickard Strandqvist
Cc: Ursula Braun, Martin Schwidefsky, Frank Blaschka, linux-s390,
linux390, Ursula Braun, linux-kernel
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 03:19:47PM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> > It is guaranteed that the string ch->id always fits into CTCM_ID_SIZE.
> > What's in this case the benefit of replacing strncpy() by strlcpy()
> > here?
>
> If it is really so! It can just as well replacing it with strcpy...
Or.. just leave the code alone.
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