On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > +static ssize_t shmem_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, size_t size) > + spin_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_lock); > + list_for_each_entry(xattr, &info->xattr_list, list) { > + /* skip "trusted." attributes for unprivileged callers */ > + if (!trusted && xattr_is_trusted(xattr->name)) > + continue; > + > + used += strlen(xattr->name) + 1; > + if (buffer) { > + if (size < used) { > + used = -ERANGE; > + break; > + } > + strncpy(buffer, xattr->name, strlen(xattr->name) + 1); >+ buffer += strlen(xattr->name) + 1; Why are you doing a strncpy here? strcpy() isn't going to copy more than strlen(xattr->name) + 1 bytes, and you know buffer is large enough to hold that because of the previous if (size < used) check? If you assigned the first strlen(xattr->name) + 1 to a temporary variable, you could use memcpy here, and avoid the 3 repeated strlen(xattr->name) calls. Phillip -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html