linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: use strlcpy instead of strncpy

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Date:	Tue, 19 May 2009 14:54:37 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: use strlcpy instead of strncpy

Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> [Impact] cleanup

Well, not entirely.

> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> @@ -155,8 +155,8 @@ struct trace_boot_ret {
>  struct trace_branch {
>  	struct trace_entry	ent;
>  	unsigned	        line;
> -	char			func[TRACE_FUNC_SIZE+1];
> -	char			file[TRACE_FILE_SIZE+1];
> +	char			func[TRACE_FUNC_SIZE];
> +	char			file[TRACE_FILE_SIZE];
>  	char			correct;
>  };

(without change of the TRACE_????_SIZE definition)

Better avoid a categorization of a patch if the change's scope exceeds 
that of the categorization.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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