linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: cdev: switch from kstrdup() to kstrndup()

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Date:   Wed, 7 Oct 2020 11:31:33 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: cdev: switch from kstrdup() to kstrndup()

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 9:03 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com> wrote:

> Use kstrndup() to copy line labels from the userspace provided char
> array, rather than ensuring the char array contains a null terminator
> and using kstrdup().
>
> Note that the length provided to kstrndup() still assumes that the char
> array does contain a null terminator, so the maximum string length is one
> less than the array.  This is consistent with the previous behaviour.
>
> Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>

General good practice! Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij