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Message-ID: <a00c9af7d24ac0dd6af8698c9e545591392720fe.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:44:11 -0700
From:   Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>,
        Patryk Małek <patryk.malek@...el.com>
Subject: Re: i40e_pto.c: Odd use of strlcpy converted from strncpy

On Sun, 2019-10-06 at 10:19 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> This got converted from strncpy to strlcpy but it's
> now not necessary to use one character less than the
> actual size.
> 
> Perhaps the sizeof() - 1 is now not correct and it
> should use strscpy and a normal sizeof.
> 
> from:
> 
> commit 7eb74ff891b4e94b8bac48f648a21e4b94ddee64
> Author: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>
> Date:   Mon Aug 20 08:12:30 2018 -0700
> 
>     i40e: use correct length for strncpy
> 
> and
> 
> commit 4ff2d8540321324e04c1306f85d4fe68a0c2d0ae
> Author: Patryk Małek <patryk.malek@...el.com>
> Date:   Tue Oct 30 10:50:44 2018 -0700
> 
>     i40e: Replace strncpy with strlcpy to ensure null termination

Looks like you have a typo in the subject, s/i40e_pto.c/i40e_ptp.c/.

You are also missing you signed-off-by: and Fixes:, I can get your
change under test in the meantime to confirm your fix.

> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c
> index 9bf1ad4319f5..627b1c02bb4b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c
> @@ -700,8 +700,8 @@ static long i40e_ptp_create_clock(struct i40e_pf
> *pf)
>  	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(pf->ptp_clock))
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	strlcpy(pf->ptp_caps.name, i40e_driver_name,
> -		sizeof(pf->ptp_caps.name) - 1);
> +	strscpy(pf->ptp_caps.name, i40e_driver_name, sizeof(pf-
> >ptp_caps.name));
> +
>  	pf->ptp_caps.owner = THIS_MODULE;
>  	pf->ptp_caps.max_adj = 999999999;
>  	pf->ptp_caps.n_ext_ts = 0;
> 
> 


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