linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] coccinelle: strncpy+truncation by strscpy

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Date:   Sat, 14 Jul 2018 07:54:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:     Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>,
        Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fengguang.wu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] coccinelle: strncpy+truncation by strscpy

> +msg = "SUGGESTION: strncpy followed by truncation can be strscpy, if the destination buffer does not need to be fully overwritten"
> +coccilib.report.print_report(p[0], msg)

This is the first SUGGESTION.  I don't know if anyone out there is relying
on it always being WARNING or ERROR.

julia