[PATCH 1/2] get_task_comm: use strlcpy instead of strncpy

From: Evgeni Golov
Date: Sun Jun 14 2009 - 13:05:59 EST


it's used in set_task_comm too and as far as I understand it should
be used everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Evgeni Golov <sargentd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/exec.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index e639957..6f1eeb8 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ char *get_task_comm(char *buf, struct task_struct *tsk)
{
/* buf must be at least sizeof(tsk->comm) in size */
task_lock(tsk);
- strncpy(buf, tsk->comm, sizeof(tsk->comm));
+ strlcpy(buf, tsk->comm, sizeof(tsk->comm));
task_unlock(tsk);
return buf;
}
--
1.6.3.1

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