Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: Replace strncpy with memcpy

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Sun Jul 01 2018 - 18:10:37 EST


Guenter Roeck, le dim. 01 juil. 2018 13:57:24 -0700, a ecrit:
> gcc 8.1.0 generates the following warnings.
>
> drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c: In function 'punc_store':
> drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c:522:2: warning:
> 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul
> copying as many bytes from a string as its length
> drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c:504:6: note: length computed here
>
> drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c: In function 'synth_store':
> drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c:391:2: warning:
> 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul
> copying as many bytes from a string as its length
> drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c:388:8: note: length computed here
>
> Using strncpy() is indeed less than perfect since the length of data to
> be copied has already been determined with strlen(). Replace strncpy()
> with memcpy() to address the warning and optimize the code a little.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
> index f1f90222186b..08f11cc17371 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
> @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ static ssize_t synth_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
> len = strlen(buf);
> if (len < 2 || len > 9)
> return -EINVAL;
> - strncpy(new_synth_name, buf, len);
> + memcpy(new_synth_name, buf, len);
> if (new_synth_name[len - 1] == '\n')
> len--;
> new_synth_name[len] = '\0';
> @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ static ssize_t punc_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> - strncpy(punc_buf, buf, x);
> + memcpy(punc_buf, buf, x);
>
> while (x && punc_buf[x - 1] == '\n')
> x--;
> --
> 2.7.4
>

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