Re: [PATCH] kdb: fix strncpy warning

[Prarit Bhargava]

On 11/03/2018 12:54 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 8:39 AM Daniel Thompson
> <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 02:24:05PM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>> kdb does a strncpy(a, b, strlen(b)+1), which makes no sense. Might as
>>> well do a strcpy at this point.
>>>
>>> Fixes this warning:
>>>
>>> In function 'strncpy', inlined from 'kallsyms_symbol_next' at kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:239:4:
>>> ./include/linux/string.h:253:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound depends on the length of the source argument [-Wstringop-overflow=]
>>
>> I think we already have a pending patch for this:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/989013/
>>
>> When we looked into this there actually is an unchecked overflow here so
>> Prarit's fix adds infrastructure to keep track of the remaining length.
> 
> I'm not surprised that there are more bugs.
> 
> The above patch was posted a month and a half ago though, why is it
> not yet merged? Can we get it in by -rc2, please?
> 
> 

Jason?  ping?  Just making sure the above patch is in your queue.

P.

> -Olof
>