netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/rds: zero last byte for strncpy

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Message-Id: <20130308.003630.1150878411855053823.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:36:30 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gang.chen@...anux.com
Cc:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, David.Laight@...LAB.COM,
	venkat.x.venkatsubra@...cle.com, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/rds: zero last byte for strncpy

From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:19:32 +0800

> 
>   for NUL terminated string, need be always sure '\0' in the end.
> 
> additional info:
>   strncpy will pads with zeroes to the end of the given buffer.
>   should initialise every bit of memory that is going to be copied to userland
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.
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