RE: [PATCH] drivers/tty/hvc: fixup original commit: 9276dfd27897a0b29d8b5814f39a1f82f56b6b6b
From: David Laight <hidden>
Date: 2013-03-08 11:13:33
From: David Laight <hidden>
Date: 2013-03-08 11:13:33
On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 11:38 +0800, Chen Gang wrote:quoted
originally I did not notice src buf len and dest buf len are the =
same.
quoted
so origianlly, it is not a bug issue, it is only for beautify =
code.
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and now, using strcpy is better.=20 Being the same len doesn't mean it's safe to use strcpy ... the source might be missing the 0 terminator. In this specific case though, I believe the source string comes was itself populated with strlcpy (at least since your patch 6b6680c4ea3952af8ae76915cbca41245147741b) =
so
strcpy is indeed safe but using strlcpy doesn't hurt does it ?
Using strlcpy() also stops someone else having to check it again in a few years time. David