Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 4 authors, 2013-03-10

Re: [PATCH] drivers/tty/hvc: using strlcpy instead of strncpy

From: Jiri Slaby <hidden>
Date: 2013-02-28 10:41:09

On 02/26/2013 04:43 AM, Chen Gang wrote:
  when strlen pi->location_code is larger than HVCS_CLC_LENGTH + 1,
    original implementation can not let hvcsd->p_location_code NUL terminated.
  so need fix it (also can simplify the code)
It should never be larger because the +1 is exactly for NUL. But it is a
cleanup, so why not...
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <redacted>
---
 drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c |    9 ++-------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c
index 1956593..81e939e 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c
@@ -881,17 +881,12 @@ static struct vio_driver hvcs_vio_driver = {
 /* Only called from hvcs_get_pi please */
 static void hvcs_set_pi(struct hvcs_partner_info *pi, struct hvcs_struct *hvcsd)
 {
-	int clclength;
-
 	hvcsd->p_unit_address = pi->unit_address;
 	hvcsd->p_partition_ID  = pi->partition_ID;
-	clclength = strlen(&pi->location_code[0]);
-	if (clclength > HVCS_CLC_LENGTH)
-		clclength = HVCS_CLC_LENGTH;
 
 	/* copy the null-term char too */
-	strncpy(&hvcsd->p_location_code[0],
-			&pi->location_code[0], clclength + 1);
+	strlcpy(&hvcsd->p_location_code[0],
+			&pi->location_code[0], sizeof(hvcsd->p_location_code));
 }
 
 /*

-- 
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