On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 5:26 PM Rong Tao <rtoax@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks for your reply, `enable[0] = '\0';` at the beginning and then > strncat() still has the same compile warning > > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/cgroup_helpers.c > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/cgroup_helpers.c > @@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ static int __enable_controllers(const char *cgroup_path, const char *controllers > enable[len] = 0; > close(fd); > } else { > - strncpy(enable, controllers, sizeof(enable)); > + enable[0] = '\0'; > + strncat(enable, controllers, sizeof(enable)); > } > > In function ‘__enable_controllers’: > tools/testing/selftests/bpf/cgroup_helpers.c:81:17: warning: ‘strncat’ specified bound 4097 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation] > 81 | strncat(enable, controllers, sizeof(enable)); > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > tools/testing/selftests/bpf/cgroup_helpers.c:81:17: warning: ‘strncat’ specified bound 4097 equals destination size [-Wstringop-overflow=] > > So, i think just add '-1' for strncpy() is a good way. no, it's not, see my previous email about ending up with non-zero-terminated C string. check strncat() API, it leaves the dst string zero terminated, and yes, you need -1 for strncat as well, your compiler is right