From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] blktrace: change strncpy+truncation to strlcpy
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:29:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85f295e5-d338-100b-16a6-45e28d292388@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190315063022.GA12910@nautica>
On 3/15/19 12:30 AM, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Jens, Steven,
>
> Jens Axboe wrote on Thu, Mar 14, 2019:
>> On 3/14/19 7:37 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>> I noticed this old patch in my inbox. It looks like a legit cleanup.
>>> Want to take it?
>>
>> Indeed, I've applied it. Thanks!
>
> Thanks. I am terribly sorry about this patch series to be honest, I did
> not prepare it properly and sent too many generic patches at once but
> more importantly some were unsafe (strlcpy expects the input string to
> be validly formatted, because it basically does strlen() on it to check
> how much hasn't been copied for its return value)
> I was pointed out strscpy instead as a safer alternative.
>
> In this case `name` comes from bdevname() which is disk_name() in
> block/partition-generic.c which is a snprintf, so we are guaranted
> null truncation from there and it should be OK, but I wanted to check
> and point it out.
Dropped.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-15 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-13 1:14 [PATCH 01/18] coccinelle: change strncpy+truncation to strlcpy Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 02/18] block/aoenet: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 14:16 ` Jens Axboe
2018-07-13 15:31 ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 03/18] drm_property: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 04/18] nouveau: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 05/18] iio: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-15 10:39 ` Jonathan Cameron
2018-07-16 11:42 ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-22 8:13 ` Jonathan Cameron
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 06/18] mptctl: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 07/18] hisilicon: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 08/18] myricom: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 09/18] qlogic/qed: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 10/18] brcmsmac: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 7:19 ` Arend van Spriel
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 11/18] wireless/ti: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 7:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-13 7:47 ` Arend van Spriel
2018-07-13 8:13 ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 18:56 ` Rustad, Mark D
2018-07-27 9:19 ` Kalle Valo
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 12/18] test_power: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 13/18] ibmvscsi: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 1:25 ` [PATCH 14/18] kdb_support: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 10:33 ` Daniel Thompson
2018-07-13 15:18 ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-16 8:23 ` Daniel Thompson
2018-07-13 1:26 ` [PATCH 15/18] blktrace: " Dominique Martinet
2019-03-15 1:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-15 2:01 ` Jens Axboe
2019-03-15 6:30 ` Dominique Martinet
2019-03-15 14:29 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2018-07-13 1:26 ` [PATCH 16/18] tools/accounting: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 1:26 ` [PATCH 17/18] perf: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 1:26 ` [PATCH 18/18] cpupower: " Dominique Martinet
2018-07-24 16:31 ` Shuah Khan
2018-08-14 15:45 ` Daniel Díaz
2018-08-14 19:27 ` Dominique Martinet
2018-08-20 14:27 ` Shuah Khan
2018-07-13 7:44 ` [Cocci] [PATCH 01/18] coccinelle: " Himanshu Jha
2018-07-13 8:00 ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-13 9:14 ` Himanshu Jha
2018-07-13 9:44 ` Julia Lawall
2018-07-13 10:21 ` Himanshu Jha
2018-07-13 10:50 ` Julia Lawall
2018-07-13 16:11 ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-14 8:12 ` [PATCH v2] coccinelle: strncpy+truncation by strscpy Dominique Martinet
2018-07-14 11:54 ` Julia Lawall
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.20.1807140743550.3356@hadrien>
2018-07-14 13:08 ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-14 20:36 ` Julia Lawall
2018-07-14 14:34 ` [v2] Coccinelle: Replace strncpy() + truncation by strscpy() SF Markus Elfring
2018-07-20 0:36 ` [PATCH v3] coccinelle: suggest replacing strncpy+truncation by strscpy Dominique Martinet
2018-07-20 5:33 ` Julia Lawall
2018-07-20 5:40 ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-20 5:49 ` Julia Lawall
2018-07-20 5:57 ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-20 6:03 ` Julia Lawall
2018-07-20 11:00 ` [v3] Coccinelle: " SF Markus Elfring
2018-07-20 9:40 ` SF Markus Elfring
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