Re: [PATCH v3] RDMA/usnic: Suppress a compiler warning

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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 03:37:01PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> This patch avoids that the following compiler warning is reported when
> building with gcc 8 and W=1:
>
> drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_fwd.c:95:2: warning: 'strncpy' output may be truncated copying 16 bytes from a string of length 20 [-Wstringop-truncation]
>   strncpy(ufdev->name, netdev_name(ufdev->netdev),
>   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>     sizeof(ufdev->name) - 1);
>     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christian Benvenuti <benve@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_fwd.c | 4 ++--
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_fwd.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_fwd.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_fwd.c
> index 995a26b65156..7875883621f4 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_fwd.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_fwd.c
> @@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ struct usnic_fwd_dev *usnic_fwd_dev_alloc(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>  	ufdev->pdev = pdev;
>  	ufdev->netdev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
>  	spin_lock_init(&ufdev->lock);
> -	strncpy(ufdev->name, netdev_name(ufdev->netdev),
> -			sizeof(ufdev->name) - 1);
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(ufdev->name) != sizeof(ufdev->netdev->name));

Technically speaking, there is nothing wrong with sizeof(ufdev->name) >
sizeof(ufdev->netdev->name), but my question is different, are you sure
that ufdev->netdev->name is null-terminated string?

I think that it is not.

Thanks

> +	strcpy(ufdev->name, ufdev->netdev->name);
>
>  	return ufdev;
>  }
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_fwd.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_fwd.h
> index 0b2cc4e79707..f0b71d593da5 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_fwd.h
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_fwd.h
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ struct usnic_fwd_dev {
>  	char				mac[ETH_ALEN];
>  	unsigned int			mtu;
>  	__be32				inaddr;
> -	char				name[IFNAMSIZ+1];
> +	char				name[IFNAMSIZ];
>  };
>
>  struct usnic_fwd_flow {
> --
> 2.18.0
>
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