netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: use the proper optlen when doing strncpy in bpf

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Date:   Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:53:14 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Martin Lau <kafai@...com>, Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>,
        Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@...com>
Cc:     "ast@...nel.org" <ast@...nel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "shaoyafang@...iglobal.com" <shaoyafang@...iglobal.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: use the proper optlen when doing strncpy in
 bpf_getsockopt()

On 01/22/2019 07:04 PM, Martin Lau wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 02:20:52PM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
>> As the last character of optval will be set with 0, so just copying
>> (optlen - 1) characters is enough.
> I am not sure this optimization is needed but I think it will

Yeah, it's totally fine as is.