RE: [PATCH] infiniband: hw: cxgb3: cxio_hal.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate after strncpy call

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Rickard Strandqvist
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 5:40 PM
> To: Steve Wise; Roland Dreier
> Cc: Rickard Strandqvist; Sean Hefty; Hal Rosenstock; linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] infiniband: hw: cxgb3: cxio_hal.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate
after
> strncpy call
> 
> Added a guaranteed null-terminate after call to strncpy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/cxio_hal.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/cxio_hal.c
> b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/cxio_hal.c
> index de1c61b4..5fc04e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/cxio_hal.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/cxio_hal.c
> @@ -933,6 +933,7 @@ int cxio_rdev_open(struct cxio_rdev *rdev_p)
>  		netdev_p = rdev_p->t3cdev_p->lldev;
>  		strncpy(rdev_p->dev_name, rdev_p->t3cdev_p->name,
>  			T3_MAX_DEV_NAME_LEN);
> +		rdev_p->dev_name[T3_MAX_DEV_NAME_LEN - 1] = '\0';
>  	} else {
>  		PDBG("%s t3cdev_p or dev_name must be set\n", __func__);
>  		return -EINVAL;

cxio_rdev_open() is called only by open_rnic_dev() which allocates the device structure by
calling ib_alloc_device() which uses kzalloc().  So this change really isn't needed, is
it?

Steve.

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