Re: [stable] [PATCH] Blackfin: strncpy: fix handling of zero lengths

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Jun 03 2011 - 18:36:20 EST


On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 11:09:22AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> From: Steven Miao <realmz6@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The jump to 4f will cause the NUL padding loop to run at least one time,
> so if string length is zero just jump to the end. Otherwise we wrongly
> write one NUL byte when size==0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Miao <realmz6@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/blackfin/lib/strncpy.S | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>


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