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From: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
To: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
	Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
	Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@somainline.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: cmd-db: replace strscpy_pad() with strncpy()
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:49:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YrpCGa3OTtgBr0vN@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220627161642.1.Ie7b480cd99e2c13319220cbc108caf2bcd41286b@changeid>

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 04:17:00PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> Commit ac0126a01735 ("soc: qcom: cmd-db: replace strncpy() with
> strscpy_pad()") breaks booting on my sc7280-herobrine-herobrine
> device. From printouts I see that at bootup the function is called
> with an id of "lnbclka2" which is 8 bytes big.
> 
> Previously all 8 bytes of this string were copied to the
> destination. Now only 7 bytes will be copied since strscpy_pad() saves
> a byte for '\0' termination.
> 
> We don't need the '\0' termination in the destination. Let's go back
> to strncpy(). According to the warning:
>   If a caller is using non-NUL-terminated strings, strncpy() can still
>   be used, but destinations should be marked with the __nonstring
>   attribute to avoid future compiler warnings.
> ...so we'll do that.
> 
> Fixes: ac0126a01735 ("soc: qcom: cmd-db: replace strncpy() with strscpy_pad()")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>

Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-27 23:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-27 23:17 [PATCH] soc: qcom: cmd-db: replace strscpy_pad() with strncpy() Douglas Anderson
2022-06-27 23:49 ` Matthias Kaehlcke [this message]
2022-06-27 23:52 ` Stephen Boyd

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