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
