[tip:perf/urgent] perf: Fix strncpy() use, always make sure it's NUL terminated

From: tip-bot for Chen Gang
Date: Mon Apr 08 2013 - 12:30:00 EST


Commit-ID: c97847d2f0eb77c806e650e04d9bbcf79fa05730
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c97847d2f0eb77c806e650e04d9bbcf79fa05730
Author: Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 11:48:27 +0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:26:55 +0200

perf: Fix strncpy() use, always make sure it's NUL terminated

For NUL terminated string, always make sure that there's '\0' at the end.

In our case we need a return value, so still use strncpy() and
fix up the tail explicitly.

(strlcpy() returns the size, not the pointer)

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: paulus@xxxxxxxxx <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51623E0B.7070101@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 59412d0..7f0d67e 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -4737,7 +4737,8 @@ 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;
}

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