linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 113/123] test_hexdump: use memcpy instead of strncpy

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Date:   Wed,  5 Dec 2018 04:35:45 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 113/123] test_hexdump: use memcpy instead of strncpy

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

[ Upstream commit b1286ed7158e9b62787508066283ab0b8850b518 ]

New versions of gcc reasonably warn about the odd pattern of

	strncpy(p, q, strlen(q));

which really doesn't make sense: the strncpy() ends up being just a slow
and odd way to write memcpy() in this case.

Apparently there was a patch for this floating around earlier, but it
got lost.

Acked-again-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 lib/test_hexdump.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/test_hexdump.c b/lib/test_hexdump.c
index 626f580b4ff7..5144899d3c6b 100644
--- a/lib/test_hexdump.c
+++ b/lib/test_hexdump.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static void __init test_hexdump_prepare_test(size_t len, int rowsize,
 		const char *q = *result++;
 		size_t amount = strlen(q);
 
-		strncpy(p, q, amount);
+		memcpy(p, q, amount);
 		p += amount;
 
 		*p++ = ' ';
-- 
2.17.1