linux-kernel - [PATCH] tracing: prefer strlcpy to strncpy

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Message-Id: <1527573818-29712-1-git-send-email-nick.desaulniers@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 23:03:38 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
To:     rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...hat.com
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: prefer strlcpy to strncpy

Fixes a stringop-truncation warning from gcc-8.

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index b9061ed..b53a6c0 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ static void hist_err_event(char *str, char *system, char *event, char *var)
 	else if (system)
 		snprintf(err, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL, "%s.%s", system, event);
 	else
-		strncpy(err, var, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL);
+		strlcpy(err, var, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL);
 
 	hist_err(str, err);
 }
-- 
2.7.4