Cleanly fill memory for "vendor" and "model" with 0-bytes for the "compatible" case rather than adding only a single 0 byte. This simplifies the devinfo code a a bit, and avoids mistakes in other places of the code (not in current upstream, but we had one such mistake in the SUSE kernel). Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c | 23 +++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c index d6db5697472e..6e784a09b21a 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ struct scsi_dev_info_list_table { }; -static const char spaces[] = " "; /* 16 of them */ static unsigned scsi_default_dev_flags; static LIST_HEAD(scsi_dev_info_list); static char scsi_dev_flags[256]; @@ -298,21 +297,13 @@ static void scsi_strcpy_devinfo(char *name, char *to, size_t to_length, size_t from_length; from_length = strlen(from); - strncpy(to, from, min(to_length, from_length)); - if (from_length < to_length) { - if (compatible) { - /* - * NUL terminate the string if it is short. - */ - to[from_length] = '\0'; - } else { - /* - * space pad the string if it is short. - */ - strncpy(&to[from_length], spaces, - to_length - from_length); - } - } + /* This zero-pads the destination */ + strncpy(to, from, to_length); + if (from_length < to_length && !compatible) + /* + * space pad the string if it is short. + */ + memset(&to[from_length], ' ', to_length - from_length); if (from_length > to_length) printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: %s string '%s' is too long\n", __func__, name, from); -- 2.15.0