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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: SECURITY - data leakage due to incorrect strncpy implementation
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On 11 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Lots of kernel drivers rely on the libc definition of strncpy. 

But that's ok. We _do_ do the padding. I hated it when I wrote it, but as 
far as I know, the kernel strncpy() has done padding pretty much since day 
one.

Yes, strlcpy() conversion users need to be careful, but I think we mostly 
_were_ careful. Knock wood.

		Linus