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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:13:38 +0100
From: James Dutton <james.dutton@...il.com>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
Calvince Otieno <calvncce@...il.com>,
Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Is strncpy really less secure than strscpy ?
On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 at 02:49, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com> wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> What if printf("a is %.*s\n", a);?
Um, it fails to compile.
>
> >
> >
> > So, why isn't the printk format specifier "%.*s" used more instead of
> > "%s" in the kernel?
>
> Since basically strings are pointers.
Um, I was trying to draw people's attention to the fact that "%.*s" is
much safer than "%s".
"%s" is like strcpy() but for print statements.
"%.*s" is like strncpy() but for print statements.
Why wasn't "%.*s" also included in the string discussions previously?
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