netdev - Re: [PATCH] tipc: use destination length for copy string

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Date:   Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:25:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gqjiang@...e.com
Cc:     jon.maloy@...csson.com, ying.xue@...driver.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: use destination length for copy string

From: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@...e.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:08:22 +0800

> Got below warning with gcc 8.2 compiler.
> 
> net/tipc/topsrv.c: In function ‘tipc_topsrv_start’:
> net/tipc/topsrv.c:660:2: warning: ‘strncpy’ specified bound depends on the length of the source argument [-Wstringop-overflow=]
>   strncpy(srv->name, name, strlen(name) + 1);
>   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> net/tipc/topsrv.c:660:27: note: length computed here
>   strncpy(srv->name, name, strlen(name) + 1);
>                            ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> So change it to correct length and use strscpy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@...e.com>

Applied.