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clean up scary strncpy(dst, src, strlen(src)) uses
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:04:55 +0000 (15:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 3 Jul 2013 23:07:41 +0000 (16:07 -0700)
commit096a8aac6bf4a5a0b2ef812ad76d056bbf3fb2af
treefa3721d6d2a96f69023624366afecb72e7b60eb6
parente7152b97f38f1f5b915c719e6a3040697a700a16
clean up scary strncpy(dst, src, strlen(src)) uses

Fix various weird constructions of strncpy(dst, src, strlen(src)).

Length limits should be about the space available in the destination,
not repurposed as a method to either always include or always exclude a
trailing NULL byte.  Either the NULL should always be copied (using
strlcpy), or it should not be copied (using something like memcpy).
Readable code should not depend on the weird behavior of strncpy when it
hits the length limit.  Better to avoid the anti-pattern entirely.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert getdelays.c part due to missing bsd/string.h]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [staging]
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> [acpi]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_sys.c
drivers/staging/tidspbridge/rmgr/drv_interface.c
fs/hppfs/hppfs.c