netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: caif: use strlcpy() instead of strncpy()

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Date:   Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:53:21 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     wangxiongfeng2@...wei.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: caif: use strlcpy() instead of strncpy()

From: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@...wei.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 19:43:00 +0800

> From: Xiongfeng Wang <xiongfeng.wang@...aro.org>
> 
> gcc-8 reports
> 
> net/caif/caif_dev.c: In function 'caif_enroll_dev':
> ./include/linux/string.h:245:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' output may
> be truncated copying 15 bytes from a string of length 15
> [-Wstringop-truncation]
> 
> net/caif/cfctrl.c: In function 'cfctrl_linkup_request':
> ./include/linux/string.h:245:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' output may
> be truncated copying 15 bytes from a string of length 15
> [-Wstringop-truncation]
> 
> net/caif/cfcnfg.c: In function 'caif_connect_client':
> ./include/linux/string.h:245:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' output may
> be truncated copying 15 bytes from a string of length 15
> [-Wstringop-truncation]
> 
> The compiler require that the input param 'len' of strncpy() should be
> greater than the length of the src string, so that '\0' is copied as
> well. We can just use strlcpy() to avoid this warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <xiongfeng.wang@...aro.org>

Applied, thank you.