Re: [PATCH] crypto: hisilicon - fix strncpy warning with strlcpy

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On 2020/6/4 14:50, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 02:44:16PM +0800, Zhangfei Gao wrote:
>>
>> I think it is fine.
>> 1. Currently the name size is 64, bigger enough.
>> Simply grep in driver name, 64 should be enough.
>> We can make it larger when there is a request.
>> 2. it does not matter what the name is, since it is just an interface.
>> cat /sys/class/uacce/hisi_zip-0/flags
>> cat /sys/class/uacce/his-0/flags
>> should be both fine to app only they can be distinguished.
>> 3. It maybe a hard restriction to fail just because of a long name.
> 
> I think we should err on the side of caution.  IOW, unless you
> know that you need it to succeed when it exceeds the limit, then
> you should just make it fail.

Yes. We need make it fail to avoid silent truncation.

> 
> Thanks,
> 



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