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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:25:18 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> To: Mark D Rustad <mrustad@...il.com> Cc: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, Torsten Duwe <duwe@....de>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>, Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] char: hw_random: core.c: Changed from using strncpy to strlcpy On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 07:11:22PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 05:27:41PM -0700, Mark D Rustad wrote: > > On Oct 11, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se> wrote: > > > > > Changed from using strncpy to strlcpy to simplify the code > > > > Actually you changed from using strncat to strlcat. > > > ... and changed the length parameter along the way, making the length check > overall quite worthless and introducing a _real_ problem. > Me talking nonsense; ignore this noise. Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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