Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] net: ethernet: intel: ixgbe: ixgbe_main.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate after strncpy call

From: Rustad, Mark D
Date: Wed Jun 04 2014 - 18:14:13 EST


On Jun 4, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 23:29 +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
>> Added a guaranteed null-terminate after call to strncpy.
>
> Perhaps all of these should be strlcpy

The code that is there seems fine. The length of the array exceeds the length of the literal, and the strncpy ensures that the entire buffer is initialized so no information can possibly leak from the kernel.

I think this is fine as it is without any patch.

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Mark Rustad, Networking Division, Intel Corporation

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