4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit bcfb84a996f6fa90b5e6e2954b2accb7a4711097 ] A powerpc build of cifs with gcc v8.2.0 produces this warning: fs/cifs/cifssmb.c: In function ‘CIFSSMBNegotiate’: fs/cifs/cifssmb.c:605:3: warning: ‘strncpy’ writing 16 bytes into a region of size 1 overflows the destination [-Wstringop-overflow=] strncpy(pSMB->DialectsArray+count, protocols[i].name, 16); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since we are already doing a strlen() on the source, change the strncpy to a memcpy(). Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c @@ -577,10 +577,15 @@ CIFSSMBNegotiate(const unsigned int xid, } count = 0; + /* + * We know that all the name entries in the protocols array + * are short (< 16 bytes anyway) and are NUL terminated. + */ for (i = 0; i < CIFS_NUM_PROT; i++) { - strncpy(pSMB->DialectsArray+count, protocols[i].name, 16); - count += strlen(protocols[i].name) + 1; - /* null at end of source and target buffers anyway */ + size_t len = strlen(protocols[i].name) + 1; + + memcpy(pSMB->DialectsArray+count, protocols[i].name, len); + count += len; } inc_rfc1001_len(pSMB, count); pSMB->ByteCount = cpu_to_le16(count);