Fix following compile warning when building with gcc 4.5 and with the flags '-O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -O2 -Wall'. In function 'strcpy', inlined from 'write_kdump_header' at makedumpfile.c:5457:8: \ /usr/include/bits/string3.h:107:3: warning: call to \ __builtin___strcpy_chk will always overflow destination buffer Solution: Don't copy the terminating zero byte. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard at bwalle.de> --- makedumpfile.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/makedumpfile.c b/makedumpfile.c index 4fa6f50..855c718 100644 --- a/makedumpfile.c +++ b/makedumpfile.c @@ -5454,7 +5454,7 @@ write_kdump_header(void) /* * Write common header */ - strcpy(dh->signature, KDUMP_SIGNATURE); + strncpy(dh->signature, KDUMP_SIGNATURE, strlen(KDUMP_SIGNATURE)); dh->header_version = 3; dh->block_size = info->page_size; dh->sub_hdr_size = sizeof(kh) + info->size_vmcoreinfo; -- 1.6.4.2