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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:07:59 +0900
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From: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
To: linux kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: generic strncpy - off-by-one error
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zero fill count is off-by-one error

--- lib/string.c~	2003-08-09 20:30:36.000000000 +0900
+++ lib/string.c	2003-08-12 22:55:47.000000000 +0900
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@
 
 	while (count && (*dest++ = *src++) != '\0')
 		count--;
-	while (count) {
+	count--;
+	while (count > 0) {
 		*dest++ = 0;
 		count--;
 	}

-- 
Yoshinori Sato
<ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>