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Message-ID: <20150519181334.GM4641@pd.tnic>
Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 20:13:34 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, cpuinfo x86_model_id whitespace cleanup

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?

AFAICT, strlcpy() calls memcpy() and memcpy should handle overlapping
buffers just fine.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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