Hi A little embarrassing, but I actually did not know that there was a better replacement for strncpy.
Sorry, but I will send a new platch based on strlcpy instead then. Will investigate cover letter then to. Best regards Rickard Strandqvist 2014-06-05 0:01 GMT+02:00 Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>: > On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 23:36 +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote: >> Added a guaranteed null-terminate after call to strncpy. > > Next time you submit a patch series like this > can you please use a cover letter? > > That way I can reply to the cover letter with > a comment about the series instead of multiple > replies to various patches. > > I think all of these should be using strlcpy not > strncpy. > >> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c >> b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c > [] >> @@ -2097,7 +2097,8 @@ _base_display_ioc_capabilities(struct MPT2SAS_ADAPTER >> *ioc) >> u32 bios_version; >> >> bios_version = le32_to_cpu(ioc->bios_pg3.BiosVersion); >> - strncpy(desc, ioc->manu_pg0.ChipName, 16); >> + strncpy(desc, ioc->manu_pg0.ChipName, sizeof(desc)); >> + desc[sizeof(desc) - 1] = '\0'; > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
