linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s390: block: dasd_devmap.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:37:34 -0400
From:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
Cc:	Stefan Weinhuber <wein@...ibm.com>,
	Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@...ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	linux390@...ibm.com, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: block: dasd_devmap.c:  Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy

Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se> writes:

> Replacing strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that lacks null terminate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
> ---
>  drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c
> index 2ead7e7..4a60ef8 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c
> @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ dasd_add_busid(const char *bus_id, int features)
>  	if (!devmap) {
>  		/* This bus_id is new. */
>  		new->devindex = dasd_max_devindex++;
> -		strncpy(new->bus_id, bus_id, DASD_BUS_ID_SIZE);
> +		strlcpy(new->bus_id, bus_id, DASD_BUS_ID_SIZE);

NACK

kzalloc'd.

Did you put thought into *any* of these conversions?
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