[PATCH] block: elevator.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy

From: Rickard Strandqvist
Date: Sat Jul 26 2014 - 19:14:22 EST


Replacing strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that lacks null terminate.
And set a string to be empty from the start.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/elevator.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index 24c28b6..ad17774 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static struct elevator_type *elevator_get(const char *name, bool try_loading)
return e;
}

-static char chosen_elevator[ELV_NAME_MAX];
+static char chosen_elevator[ELV_NAME_MAX] = "";

static int __init elevator_setup(char *str)
{
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static int __init elevator_setup(char *str)
* Be backwards-compatible with previous kernels, so users
* won't get the wrong elevator.
*/
- strncpy(chosen_elevator, str, sizeof(chosen_elevator) - 1);
+ strlcpy(chosen_elevator, str, sizeof(chosen_elevator));
return 1;
}

--
1.7.10.4

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