4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
commit b1286ed7158e9b62787508066283ab0b8850b518 upstream.
New versions of gcc reasonably warn about the odd pattern of
strncpy(p, q, strlen(q));
which really doesn't make sense: the strncpy() ends up being just a slow
and odd way to write memcpy() in this case.
Apparently there was a patch for this floating around earlier, but it
got lost.
Acked-again-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
lib/test-hexdump.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/lib/test-hexdump.c
+++ b/lib/test-hexdump.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static void __init test_hexdump(size_t l
const char *q = *result++;
size_t amount = strlen(q);
- strncpy(p, q, amount);
+ memcpy(p, q, amount);
p += amount + 1;
}
if (i)
