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Date:	Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:48:08 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gosp@...hat.com, bphilips@...ell.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 03/12] e1000e: properly bounds-check string functions

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 16:29 -0800, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com wrote:
> From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>
> 
> Use string functions with bounds checking rather than their non-bounds
> checking counterparts, and do not hard code these boundaries.
[...]
> --- a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
[...]
> @@ -5968,7 +5968,7 @@ static int __devinit e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>  	if (!(adapter->flags & FLAG_HAS_AMT))
>  		e1000_get_hw_control(adapter);
>  
> -	strcpy(netdev->name, "eth%d");
> +	strncpy(netdev->name, "eth%d", sizeof(netdev->name) - 1);
>  	err = register_netdev(netdev);
>  	if (err)
>  		goto err_register;
[...]

This statement is actually redundant - alloc_etherdev() sets the name
for you.

Ben.

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