From: Joe Perches
> Sent: 27 August 2020 21:30
...
> Perhaps what's necessary is to find any
> appropriate .show function and change
> any use of strcpy/sprintf within those
> function to some other name.
>
> For instance:
>
> drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c-static ssize_t name_show(struct device *dev,
> drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c- struct device_attribute
> *attr, char *buf)
> drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c-{
> drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c: strcpy(buf, dev_name(dev));
> drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c- return strlen(buf);
> drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c-}
> drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c-static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(name);
That form ends up calculating the string length twice.
Better would be:
len = strlen(msg);
memcpy(buf, msg, len);
return len;
David
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