From: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 1823342a1f2b47a4e6f5667f67cd28ab6bc4d6cd upstream. gcc 8.1.0 complains: fs/configfs/symlink.c:67:3: warning: 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul copying as many bytes from a string as its length fs/configfs/symlink.c: In function 'configfs_get_link': fs/configfs/symlink.c:63:13: note: length computed here Using strncpy() is indeed less than perfect since the length of data to be copied has already been determined with strlen(). Replace strncpy() with memcpy() to address the warning and optimize the code a little. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/configfs/symlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/configfs/symlink.c b/fs/configfs/symlink.c index 0525ebc3aea2..66e8c5d58b21 100644 --- a/fs/configfs/symlink.c +++ b/fs/configfs/symlink.c @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static void fill_item_path(struct config_item * item, char * buffer, int length) /* back up enough to print this bus id with '/' */ length -= cur; - strncpy(buffer + length,config_item_name(p),cur); + memcpy(buffer + length, config_item_name(p), cur); *(buffer + --length) = '/'; } } -- 2.18.0
