[PATCH] fs: Prefer strlcpy() over snprintf()

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Fri May 09 2008 - 07:42:33 EST


strlcpy is faster than snprintf when you don't use the returned value.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aeb@xxxxxx>
---
A quick grep suggests that there's about 80 more similar cases in the kernel
tree which could be fixed.

fs/configfs/dir.c | 2 +-
fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c | 4 ++--
fs/partitions/check.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.26-rc1.orig/fs/configfs/dir.c 2008-05-09 12:52:51.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc1/fs/configfs/dir.c 2008-05-09 13:20:24.000000000 +0200
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ static int configfs_mkdir(struct inode *
goto out_put;
}

- snprintf(name, dentry->d_name.len + 1, "%s", dentry->d_name.name);
+ strlcpy(name, dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.len + 1);

mutex_lock(&subsys->su_mutex);
group = NULL;
--- linux-2.6.26-rc1.orig/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c 2008-05-09 12:52:51.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc1/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c 2008-05-09 13:20:24.000000000 +0200
@@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ static int init_names(struct gfs2_sbd *s
if (!table[0])
table = sdp->sd_vfs->s_id;

- snprintf(sdp->sd_proto_name, GFS2_FSNAME_LEN, "%s", proto);
- snprintf(sdp->sd_table_name, GFS2_FSNAME_LEN, "%s", table);
+ strlcpy(sdp->sd_proto_name, proto, GFS2_FSNAME_LEN);
+ strlcpy(sdp->sd_table_name, table, GFS2_FSNAME_LEN);

table = sdp->sd_table_name;
while ((table = strchr(table, '/')))
--- linux-2.6.26-rc1.orig/fs/partitions/check.c 2008-05-09 12:52:51.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc1/fs/partitions/check.c 2008-05-09 13:20:24.000000000 +0200
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static int (*check_part[])(struct parsed
char *disk_name(struct gendisk *hd, int part, char *buf)
{
if (!part)
- snprintf(buf, BDEVNAME_SIZE, "%s", hd->disk_name);
+ strlcpy(buf, hd->disk_name, BDEVNAME_SIZE);
else if (isdigit(hd->disk_name[strlen(hd->disk_name)-1]))
snprintf(buf, BDEVNAME_SIZE, "%sp%d", hd->disk_name, part);
else


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Jean Delvare
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