Around Mon 05 Nov 2018 17:13:43 +0100 or thereabout, Clément Péron wrote: Hello, > Could you have a look at this patch ? > > Thanks, > Clement > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 13:00, Clément Péron <peron.clem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> GCC 8.2 warns about an overlapping using strncpy. >> >> Replace strncpy with a memmove to avoid this issue. >> >> 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 >> make: *** [Makefile:36: lsmmc.o] Error 1 >> >> Signed-off-by: Clément Péron <peron.clem@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> >> v2: >> repost with Chris Ball >> >> lsmmc.c | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/lsmmc.c b/lsmmc.c >> index c4faa00..bcb854d 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); >> >> return strdup(line); >> } >> -- >> 2.19.1 This works well for me at least. -- mvh Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt