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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 11:44:41 -0700 From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> Cc: "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 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? > > AFAICT, strlcpy() calls memcpy() and memcpy should handle overlapping > buffers just fine. Are you thinking of memmove? --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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