RE: [PATCH] net: can: usb: peak_usb: pcan_usb_core.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy

From: David Laight
Date: Mon Sep 15 2014 - 04:30:25 EST


From: Rickard Strandqvist
...
> Replacing strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that lacks null terminate.
...
> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c
> b/drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c
> index 644e6ab..d4fe8ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c
> @@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ static void peak_usb_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf)
> char name[IFNAMSIZ];
>
> dev->state &= ~PCAN_USB_STATE_CONNECTED;
> - strncpy(name, netdev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
> + strlcpy(name, netdev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
>
> unregister_netdev(netdev);
> free_candev(netdev);

Or:
char name[sizeof netdev->name];
memcpy(name, netdev->name, sizeof netdev->name);

David



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