RE: [PATCH v1 1/2] mmc-utils: Use memcpy instead of strncpy

From: Avri Altman
Date: Mon Nov 15 2021 - 03:39:24 EST


Hi Bean,
>
> The -Wstringop-truncation warning added in GCC 8.0:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82944
>
> If you use the GCC > v8.0, you probably will get this compilation error:
>
> error: ‘__builtin_strncpy’ output may be truncated copying 8 bytes from a
> string of length 511 [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
>
> Use memcpy instead of strncpy to avoid this compilation error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bean Huo <beanhuo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Looking into the link above, it say that this warning:
"... is specifically intended to highlight likely unintended uses of the strncpy function that truncate the terminating NUL charcter from the source string."

As this is not the case here, I wouldn't worry about this warning.

Thanks,
Avri

> ---
> mmc_cmds.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mmc_cmds.c b/mmc_cmds.c
> index 205e6e5b89f9..ecbde3937c81 100644
> --- a/mmc_cmds.c
> +++ b/mmc_cmds.c
> @@ -1835,7 +1835,8 @@ int do_read_extcsd(int nargs, char **argv)
>
> if (ext_csd_rev >= 7) {
> memset(lbuf, 0, sizeof(lbuf));
> - strncpy(lbuf, (char*)&ext_csd[EXT_CSD_FIRMWARE_VERSION], 8);
> + memcpy(lbuf, (char*)&ext_csd[EXT_CSD_FIRMWARE_VERSION], 8);
> + lbuf[8] = '\0';
> printf("eMMC Firmware Version: %s\n", lbuf);
> printf("eMMC Life Time Estimation A
> [EXT_CSD_DEVICE_LIFE_TIME_EST_TYP_A]: 0x%02x\n",
> ext_csd[EXT_CSD_DEVICE_LIFE_TIME_EST_TYP_A]);
> --
> 2.25.1