linux-kernel - [tip:perf/core] perf ui helpline: Use strlcpy() as a shorter form of strncpy() + explicit set nul

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Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 06:23:30 -0800
From:   tip-bot for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     acme@...hat.com, adrian.hunter@...el.com, mingo@...nel.org,
        namhyung@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jolsa@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf ui helpline: Use strlcpy() as a shorter form
 of strncpy() + explicit set nul

Commit-ID:  4d0f16d059ddb91424480d88473f7392f24aebdc
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/4d0f16d059ddb91424480d88473f7392f24aebdc
Author:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 11:41:03 -0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:59:23 -0300

perf ui helpline: Use strlcpy() as a shorter form of strncpy() + explicit set nul

The strncpy() function may leave the destination string buffer
unterminated, better use strlcpy() that we have a __weak fallback
implementation for systems without it.

In this case we are actually setting the null byte at the right place,
but since we pass the buffer size as the limit to strncpy() and not
it minus one, gcc ends up warning us about that, see below. So, lets
just switch to the shorter form provided by strlcpy().

This fixes this warning on an Alpine Linux Edge system with gcc 8.2:

  ui/tui/helpline.c: In function 'tui_helpline__push':
  ui/tui/helpline.c:27:2: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 512 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
    strncpy(ui_helpline__current, msg, sz)[sz - 1] = '\0';
    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Fixes: e6e904687949 ("perf ui: Introduce struct ui_helpline")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-d1wz0hjjsh19xbalw69qpytj@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/ui/tui/helpline.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/tui/helpline.c b/tools/perf/ui/tui/helpline.c
index 4ca799aadb4e..93d6b7240285 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/tui/helpline.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/tui/helpline.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static void tui_helpline__push(const char *msg)
 	SLsmg_set_color(0);
 	SLsmg_write_nstring((char *)msg, SLtt_Screen_Cols);
 	SLsmg_refresh();
-	strncpy(ui_helpline__current, msg, sz)[sz - 1] = '\0';
+	strlcpy(ui_helpline__current, msg, sz);
 }
 
 static int tui_helpline__show(const char *format, va_list ap)