I will look at sparse whether it can capture this kind of mistake.

Masatake YAMATO

From: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:32:59 +0000

On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 12:07 -0400, David Miller wrote:

quoted

From: Masatake YAMATO <redacted>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:47:27 +0900

quoted

Trigger BUG_ON if a group name is longer than GENL_NAMSIZ.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <redacted>

Applied, thanks.

Although I'm disappointed that the compiler doesn't say anything about
this in the assignment.

We're assigning "char[16] = STRING" and it doesn't say anything if the
final NULL char doesn't fit into the array.

Unfortunately the C standard says this is allowed.  (Though the C++
standard says it's not!)  That doesn't mean the compiler can't warn
about it, of course.

Ben.

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