On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 08:10:36PM -0500, Qian Cai wrote: > drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/sysfs.c:360:2: warning: 'strncpy' output may be > truncated copying 8 bytes from a string of length 31 [-Wstringop-truncation] > > Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> > > Changes since v2: > * Used strscpy() instead of snprintf() > * Removed an unnecessary statement. > > drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/sysfs.c | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/sysfs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/sysfs.c > index 752bdd536130..8cf0d2e4c823 100644 > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/sysfs.c > @@ -357,8 +357,7 @@ static void get_name(struct mlx4_ib_dev *dev, char *name, int i, int max) > > /* pci_name format is: bus:dev:func -> xxxx:yy:zz.n */ > strlcpy(name, pci_name(dev->dev->persist->pdev), max); > - strncpy(base_name, name, 8); /*till xxxx:yy:*/ > - base_name[8] = '\0'; > + strscpy(base_name, name, sizeof(base_name)); /*till xxxx:yy:*/ > /* with no ARI only 3 last bits are used so when the fn is higher than 8 > * need to add it to the dev num, so count in the last number will be > * modulo 8 */ > sprintf(name, "%s%.2d.%d", base_name, (i/8), (i%8)); This whole routine is goofy. Why not just do something this: sprintf(name, "%.8s%.2d.%d", pci_name(dev->dev->persist->pdev), (i/8), (i%8)); ? And while you are looking at this, the use of sprintf, not snprintf is wrong too, it should be snprintf(name, max, ...) Jason