Re: strncpy (maybe others) broken on Alpha

[Bob Tracy]

Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> Well, these things happen. I think it's not quite surprising.
> First, the kernel is not overloaded with strncpy calls. ;-)

As I mentioned in an earlier private message, I hope I can be forgiven
for assuming otherwise, particularly since someone went to the trouble
of writing an architecture-specific optimized version of that function.

> Second, strncpy was mostly used in drivers that are rarely (if at all)
> used on alpha.

Which was evidently the case, since this problem didn't surface until
the strncpy() call was added to sd.c.

> Third, to discover this bug you need some special combination of source
> and destination alignment, source string length and byte count.

I'm happy to report my Alpha is now up and running on 2.6.17-rc2, so
the fix works for me.  Thanks to discussion participants for their time
and trouble!

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