From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 209B5ECDFBB for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E7A20673 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:00:37 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org D8E7A20673 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=users.sourceforge.net Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731000AbeGTLsR (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:48:17 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:57555 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728307AbeGTLsR (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:48:17 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([92.228.185.52]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb101 [213.165.67.124]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LwqBg-1g4WMH3HWC-016NMZ; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:00:13 +0200 Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dominique Martinet , Gilles Muller , Masahiro Yamada , Michal Marek , Nicolas Palix , =?UTF-8?B?VmlsbGUgU3lyasOkbMOk?= References: Subject: Re: [v3] Coccinelle: suggest replacing strncpy+truncation by strscpy To: Julia Lawall , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org From: SF Markus Elfring Message-ID: <154c8cbb-c396-d3b6-c53c-f28b4e44c0ed@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:00:09 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:CrkfPoY53fzfkECYrkK4MfyproyxKfGkIuwlus+pbF/VDoYBWAj wG9LDiRltLyPmsZKRd1GhTnXjEGRHpHbaZT7aUBFZOzHFHL+wjcHijDGu/Fl1eCUHZfWrOe ZF6rwyJ66MkbQnnnbBP6N+nGpxsKTWxNJWiqiwu+xBNojG0cD7EfSBvo5rZEjwrMUkRUioD MNoDMH8M76Ibiehlw0HwQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:52M7QvtMte8=:i1iDWw4Et47z1T+ntFKRH/ XFYRnsVe8Hwoa2B+N33E1nRjBkWU4hhmDV6zjXDjy7QH3Kv4kridhKaUjyyYORNAGUxveZieL 2AeKA8cDRXsmX1O48RvDeSZRGUhBZTldR0GUtF0HwRfiESKCC9Fl8wyPwZcvOh+9oplLfZ6UV MOcN/d3n6PYRhNuGJCkEhW9mNLp0aO2+yaEaiFVNmhrtgfCXyetv5otGGHFs4EJaFTH0xA5Fd aBM1xAEwUXIr0KhBktYdAezVdWfI9u3/yWpK7Tq7fIpapGqJPMo0TABc7WdqPXOwqtczxjByh 1zqjWu9N+jiKKwUjVny8JZnvG5N8t7W9BBu1+NmsnhapLmd5xizHxsNfLVsZtfJ0oC0CoL6qi X4LqeDrleX70pFaJ1YE6IySFzuWACysw60IKQiVRGeU2BZHuiz+M6DQUzMtQhN6mwJbMaWj8e ewA0kSbZyKhM7kun8zG7djkGewa+OGNwQ3vf/kWySclLZHS0DOOSZCNhsDp1lvj271AMWVyNS NjSEVPEQs4E/Q0ZnZ4iEWhWde3BnA4JXXFdiZ9GdsoR0p2JFdZ3x+1dm7vz4+Y4pFvRMGSmHl TxweeCSBMd6g8GoCcgOB+FNGeV7ydWqImehZTy8VmxjdArtUCQasSElw7e6hfnhBG+sxdazLn SHbZLkyepDmoB2Uta4XqO4TrFtzyK8ZUikZNUR6jhdIPj04JrHA5jS71sl5arJFAxWGlGrZzF b6WdThwQ/53AnuEOlOK+sz/hAnl9TVG7Kgt0MauxhE2ZMrNmpnUloIKqGXK9+JOad/VpPgBVQ Flla2Gy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The problem is that I don't know if the script is correct Will the clarification of such a concern evolve into another interesting software development adventure? > - I'm not familiar with these string functions. How are the chances to improve the understanding of affected programming interfaces anyhow? https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.18-rc5/source/lib/string.c#L154 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/lib/string.c?id=28c20cc73b9cc4288c86c2a3fc62af4087de4b19#n154 Regards, Markus From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:00:09 +0000 Subject: Re: [v3] Coccinelle: suggest replacing strncpy+truncation by strscpy Message-Id: <154c8cbb-c396-d3b6-c53c-f28b4e44c0ed@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Julia Lawall , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dominique Martinet , Gilles Muller , Masahiro Yamada , Michal Marek , Nicolas Palix , =?UTF-8?B?VmlsbGUgU3lyasOkbMOk?= > The problem is that I don't know if the script is correct Will the clarification of such a concern evolve into another interesting software development adventure? > - I'm not familiar with these string functions. How are the chances to improve the understanding of affected programming interfaces anyhow? https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.18-rc5/source/lib/string.c#L154 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/lib/string.c?id(c20cc73b9cc4288c86c2a3fc62af4087de4b19#n154 Regards, Markus