[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/18] drivers: net: nfp: nfpcore: fix strncpy misuse

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 05:00:21PM +0800, Andy Green wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05/08/2018 04:58 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 12:29:53PM +0800, Andy Green wrote:
> > > 
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/net/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_cpp_pcie_ops.c |    3 ++-
> > >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_cpp_pcie_ops.c b/drivers/net/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_cpp_pcie_ops.c
> > > index 4e6c66624..9f6704a7f 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_cpp_pcie_ops.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_cpp_pcie_ops.c
> > > @@ -846,7 +846,8 @@ nfp6000_init(struct nfp_cpp *cpp, const char *devname)
> > >   	memset(desc->busdev, 0, BUSDEV_SZ);
> > > -	strncpy(desc->busdev, devname, strlen(devname));
> > > +	strncpy(desc->busdev, devname, sizeof(desc->busdev) - 1);
> > > +	desc->busdev[sizeof(desc->busdev) - 1] = '\0';
> > >   	ret = nfp_acquire_process_lock(desc);
> > >   	if (ret)
> > As with previous patch, a better fix is to use strlcpy. This would apply to
> > just about all uses of strncpy in the code.
> 
> OK.
> 
> But the strncpy() was already there, it's not introduced by the patch.
> 
> I agree just doing it in one hit with strlcpy() is nicer.
> 
> -Andy
> 
Thanks for the fixes!