Re: [PATCH] tracing: prefer strlcpy to strncpy

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 29 May 2018 18:55:23 -0700
Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Nick Desaulniers
> <nick.desaulniers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Fixes a stringop-truncation warning from gcc-8.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> > index b9061ed..b53a6c0 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> > @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ static void hist_err_event(char *str, char *system, char *event, char *var)
> >         else if (system)
> >                 snprintf(err, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL, "%s.%s", system, event);
> >         else
> > -               strncpy(err, var, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL);
> > +               strlcpy(err, var, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL);
> >
> >         hist_err(str, err);
> >  }
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >  
> 
> Eric points out this wont initialize the rest of err with zeros.

And why do we care?

-- Steve