Re: [PATCH] mmc: use memmove to avoid strncpy on overlapping strings

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Around Mon 05 Nov 2018 08:15:50 +0100 or thereabout, Clément Péron wrote:

Hello Clément,

> Le dim. 4 nov. 2018 à 12:29, Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt
> <egtvedt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>
>> Using GCC 8.2.0 I see the following error.
>>
>> /usr/bin/gcc-8  -Wall -Werror -Wuninitialized -Wundef -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -Wp,-MMD,./.lsmmc.o.d,-MT,lsmmc.o -c lsmmc.c -o lsmmc.o
>> In file included from /usr/include/string.h:494,
>>                  from lsmmc.c:46:
>> In function ‘strncpy’,
>>     inlined from ‘read_file’ at lsmmc.c:356:3:
>> /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string_fortified.h:106:10: error: ‘__builtin_strncpy’ accessing 4096 bytes at offsets 0 and 1 overlaps 4095 bytes at offset 1 [-Werror=restrict]
>>    return __builtin___strncpy_chk (__dest, __src, __len, __bos (__dest));
>>           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>> Makefile:36: recipe for target 'lsmmc.o' failed
>> make: *** [lsmmc.o] Error 1
>>
>> Hence replace the strncpy with memmove, since using strncpy on
>> overlapping strings is not allowed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  lsmmc.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lsmmc.c b/lsmmc.c
>> index c4faa00..7637198 100644
>> --- a/lsmmc.c
>> +++ b/lsmmc.c
>> @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ char *read_file(char *name)
>>                 line[strlen(line) - 1] = '\0';
>>
>>         while (isspace(line[0]))
>> -               strncpy(&line[0], &line[1], sizeof(line));
>> +               memmove(&line[0], &line[1], sizeof(line) - 1);
> 
> 
> Post the same patch a week ago : https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10654531/
> 
> Could you add your review ?

That looks good by me, however I could not immediate figure out how to ack a
patch in patchwork. I even tried creating an account.

<snipp>

-- 
mvh
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt



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