netdev - RE: [PATCH v4 4/9] em28xx: fix em28xx_dvb

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Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DD007F521@AcuExch.aculab.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:41:30 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Arnd Bergmann' <arnd@...db.de>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 4/9] em28xx: fix em28xx_dvb_init for KASAN

From: Arnd Bergmann
> Sent: 22 September 2017 22:29
...
> It seems that this is triggered in part by using strlcpy(), which the
> compiler doesn't recognize as copying at most 'len' bytes, since strlcpy
> is not part of the C standard.

Neither is strncpy().

It'll almost certainly be a marker in a header file somewhere,
so it should be possibly to teach it about other functions.

	David