I got a compile error with GCC7. When trimming white spaces from strings lsmmc uses strncpy with overlapping memory areas. This is not allowed. In addition, the implementation was not efficient with calling strlen and strncpy once per iteration. Refactor the code to be valid and more effective. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lsmmc.c | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/lsmmc.c b/lsmmc.c index c4faa00..9737b37 100644 --- a/lsmmc.c +++ b/lsmmc.c @@ -316,8 +316,9 @@ int parse_ids(struct config *config) /* MMC/SD file parsing functions */ char *read_file(char *name) { - char *preparsed; char line[4096]; + char *preparsed, *start = line; + int len; FILE *f; f = fopen(name, "r"); @@ -348,12 +349,17 @@ char *read_file(char *name) } line[sizeof(line) - 1] = '\0'; + len = strlen(line); - while (isspace(line[strlen(line) - 1])) - line[strlen(line) - 1] = '\0'; + while (len > 0 && isspace(line[len - 1])) + len--; - while (isspace(line[0])) - strncpy(&line[0], &line[1], sizeof(line)); + while (len > 0 && isspace(*start)) { + start++; + len--; + } + memmove(line, start, len); + line[len] = '\0'; return strdup(line); } -- 2.11.0