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* [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre: obdclass: genops.c:  Cleaning up missing null-terminate after strncpy call
@ 2014-08-09 23:48 Rickard Strandqvist
  2014-08-11 10:55 ` Dan Carpenter
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Rickard Strandqvist @ 2014-08-09 23:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Oleg Drokin
  Cc: Rickard Strandqvist, Peng Tao, Andreas Dilger, Alex Zhuravlev,
	Christoph Jaeger, Hongchao Zhang, Lisa Nguyen, Masanari Iida,
	Ann Koehler, devel, linux-kernel

Added a guaranteed null-terminate after call to strncpy.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/genops.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/genops.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/genops.c
index 3210ad8..082b5b9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/genops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/genops.c
@@ -328,6 +328,7 @@ struct obd_device *class_newdev(const char *type_name, const char *name)
 			result->obd_type = type;
 			strncpy(result->obd_name, name,
 				sizeof(result->obd_name) - 1);
+			result->obd_name[sizeof(result->obd_name) - 1] = '\0';
 			obd_devs[i] = result;
 		}
 	}
-- 
1.7.10.4


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* Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre: obdclass: genops.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate after strncpy call
  2014-08-09 23:48 [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre: obdclass: genops.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate after strncpy call Rickard Strandqvist
@ 2014-08-11 10:55 ` Dan Carpenter
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2014-08-11 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rickard Strandqvist
  Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Oleg Drokin, devel, Andreas Dilger,
	Hongchao Zhang, Peng Tao, Alex Zhuravlev, linux-kernel,
	Ann Koehler, Christoph Jaeger, Lisa Nguyen

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 01:48:00AM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> Added a guaranteed null-terminate after call to strncpy.
> 

No.  This one isn't needed.  The static checker *should* know this so it
is a problem with the static checker and not with the code.

Don't change code, just because the static checker has problems.

regards,
dan carpenter


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