PATCH: btaudio uses memset so should be strlcpy

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 09:29:12 EST


(I've got a patch pending from someone to redo the lot using memset so
its safe from padding suprises)

diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux-2.6.0-test1/sound/oss/btaudio.c linux-2.6.0-test1-ac2/sound/oss/btaudio.c
--- linux-2.6.0-test1/sound/oss/btaudio.c 2003-07-14 14:11:57.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.0-test1-ac2/sound/oss/btaudio.c 2003-07-14 14:27:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -328,8 +328,8 @@
         if (cmd == SOUND_MIXER_INFO) {
                 mixer_info info;
                 memset(&info,0,sizeof(info));
- strncpy(info.id,"bt878",sizeof(info.id));
- strncpy(info.name,"Brooktree Bt878 audio",sizeof(info.name));
+ strlcpy(info.id,"bt878",sizeof(info.id));
+ strlcpy(info.name,"Brooktree Bt878 audio",sizeof(info.name));
                 info.modify_counter = bta->mixcount;
                 if (copy_to_user((void *)arg, &info, sizeof(info)))
                         return -EFAULT;
@@ -338,8 +338,8 @@
         if (cmd == SOUND_OLD_MIXER_INFO) {
                 _old_mixer_info info;
                 memset(&info,0,sizeof(info));
- strncpy(info.id,"bt878",sizeof(info.id)-1);
- strncpy(info.name,"Brooktree Bt878 audio",sizeof(info.name));
+ strlcpy(info.id,"bt878",sizeof(info.id)-1);
+ strlcpy(info.name,"Brooktree Bt878 audio",sizeof(info.name));
                 if (copy_to_user((void *)arg, &info, sizeof(info)))
                         return -EFAULT;
                 return 0;

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