Re: [PATCH] atmel: using strlcpy() to avoid possible buffer overflows

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 5:51 AM, YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 'firmware' is a module param which may been longer than firmware_id,
> so using strlcpy() to guard against overflows

strncat() is against overflow, this does a bit more.

>         priv->firmware_id[0] = '\0';
...
>         if (firmware) /* module parameter */
> -               strcpy(priv->firmware_id, firmware);
> +               strlcpy(priv->firmware_id, firmware, sizeof(priv->firmware_id));

In either case the above '\0' is not needed.
But it looks like the intention was to use strncat() / strlcat().

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko