Re: [PATCH] block: bsg.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy

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2014-07-28 16:31 GMT+02:00 Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Replacing strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that lacks null terminate.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  block/bsg.c |    2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/block/bsg.c b/block/bsg.c
>> index ff46add..b2688c5 100644
>> --- a/block/bsg.c
>> +++ b/block/bsg.c
>> @@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ static struct bsg_device *bsg_add_device(struct inode *inode,
>>       mutex_lock(&bsg_mutex);
>>       hlist_add_head(&bd->dev_list, bsg_dev_idx_hash(iminor(inode)));
>>
>> -     strncpy(bd->name, dev_name(rq->bsg_dev.class_dev), sizeof(bd->name) - 1);
>> +     strlcpy(bd->name, dev_name(rq->bsg_dev.class_dev), sizeof(bd->name));
>>       dprintk("bound to <%s>, max queue %d\n",
>>               format_dev_t(buf, inode->i_rdev), bd->max_queue);
>
> NACK
>
> The bsg data structure is allocated using kzalloc, so that last byte
> will be zero.

Hi

Sorry.. I did not know bsg_alloc_device used kzalloc, right then
everything should be ok.

Kind regards
Rickard Strandqvist
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