linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [PATCH] Blackfin: strncpy: fix handling of zero lengths

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Date:	Sat, 4 Jun 2011 07:32:13 +0900
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Cc:	uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org,
	Steven Miao <realmz6@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] Blackfin: strncpy: fix handling of zero lengths

On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 11:09:22AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> From: Steven Miao <realmz6@...il.com>
> 
> The jump to 4f will cause the NUL padding loop to run at least one time,
> so if string length is zero just jump to the end.  Otherwise we wrongly
> write one NUL byte when size==0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Miao <realmz6@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
> ---
>  arch/blackfin/lib/strncpy.S |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>


<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>
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