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Message-ID: <1432067319.2870.211.camel@perches.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 13:28:39 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, cpuinfo x86_model_id whitespace cleanup
On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 13:26 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> iOn Tue, 2015-05-19 at 13:16 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:44:41AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > >> On May 19, 2015 11:13 AM, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:25:59PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > >> > > Using strlcpy in this manner could fail if it does larger than byte
> > >> > > copies and they overlap.
> > >> >
> > >> > Why?
>
> I think this is traditionally handled by specifying that
> the strcpy strings may not overlap, so the suggested
>
> + strlcpy(c->x86_model_id, strim(c->x86_model_id), 48);
>
> isn't good code.
>
> A temporary intermediate buffer is required.
Or memmove. (duh)
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