linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/cma: use strlcpy() instead of strncpy()

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Date:   Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:04:51 -0700
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@...wei.com>
Cc:     linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        arnd@...db.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/cma: use strlcpy() instead of strncpy()

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 03:56:05PM +0800, Xiongfeng Wang wrote:
> From: Xiongfeng Wang <xiongfeng.wang@...aro.org>
> 
> gcc-8 reports
> 
> drivers/infiniband/core/cma_configfs.c: In function 'make_cma_dev':
> ./include/linux/string.h:245:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified
> bound 64 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
> 
> We need to use strlcpy() to make sure the string is nul-terminated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <xiongfeng.wang@...aro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
>  drivers/infiniband/core/cma_configfs.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to rdma for-next, thanks

Jason