On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 10:40:50PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 23:14 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 04:57:48PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Probable cut&paste typo - use the correct field size.
> >
> > Huh, that's been there forever, I wonder why we haven't seen crashes?
> > Oh, I see, name and authname both have the same size.
> >
> > Anyway, makes sense, thanks. Will apply for 5.3.
> >
> > (Unless someone else is getting this; I didn't get copied on the rest of
> > the series.)
>
> It's generally hard to cc everyone on treewide fixes like this.
>
> There's no good mechanism I know of.
> vger mailing lists reject emails with too many addressees.
Yeah. I guess what I don't understand is why this patch is part of a
series at all. It makes me wonder if there's some dependency I missed
or if the 0/8 mail actually asked somebody else to apply it.
Whatever, I guess I'm being silly, it clearly stands alone. Applying
for 5.3.
> Do you have an opinion on adding the stracpy macro which
> could avoid many of these defects?
I don't have an opinion.
--b.
> ---
> include/linux/string.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
> index 4deb11f7976b..ef01bd6f19df 100644
> --- a/include/linux/string.h
> +++ b/include/linux/string.h
> @@ -35,6 +35,22 @@ ssize_t strscpy(char *, const char *, size_t);
> /* Wraps calls to strscpy()/memset(), no arch specific code required */
> ssize_t strscpy_pad(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count);
>
> +#define stracpy(to, from) \
> +({ \
> + size_t size = ARRAY_SIZE(to); \
> + BUILD_BUG_ON(!__same_type(typeof(*to), char)); \
> + \
> + strscpy(to, from, size); \
> +})
> +
> +#define stracpy_pad(to, from) \
> +({ \
> + size_t size = ARRAY_SIZE(to); \
> + BUILD_BUG_ON(!__same_type(typeof(*to), char)); \
> + \
> + strscpy_pad(to, from, size); \
> +})
> +
> #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCAT
> extern char * strcat(char *, const char *);
> #endif
>
>
