[PATCH] kernel: events: strncpy, always be sure of NUL terminated.

From: Chen Gang
Date: Sun Apr 07 2013 - 23:49:02 EST



for NUL terminated string, always be sure of '\0' at the end.

in our case, need return value, so still use strncpy
(strlcpy return the size, not the pointer)

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 4757941..bdc0e25 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -4752,7 +4752,8 @@ static void perf_event_mmap_event(struct perf_mmap_event *mmap_event)
} else {
if (arch_vma_name(mmap_event->vma)) {
name = strncpy(tmp, arch_vma_name(mmap_event->vma),
- sizeof(tmp));
+ sizeof(tmp) - 1);
+ tmp[sizeof(tmp) - 1] = '\0';
goto got_name;
}

--
1.7.7.6
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