linux-kernel - Re: [patch] bfa: use strncpy() instead of memcpy()

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Message-ID: <yq1twlpi3si.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
Date:	Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:54:05 -0500
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Anil Gurumurthy <anil.gurumurthy@...gic.com>,
	Sudarsana Kalluru <sudarsana.kalluru@...gic.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...n.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] bfa: use strncpy() instead of memcpy()

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> writes:

Dan> BFA_MFG_NAME is "QLogic" which is only 7 bytes, but we are copying
Dan> 8 bytes.  It's harmless because the badding byte is likely zero but
Dan> it makes static checkers complain.

Applied to 4.6/scsi-queue.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering