Re: [PATCH 2/2] string: teach strnstr() to not search past NUL-terminator

[André Goddard Rosa]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> André Goddard Rosa wrote:
>> As noticed by Alex Riesen at:
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126364040821071&w=2
>>
> Please don't make this change, it's the user's responsibility
> to make sure @len won't exceed @s1's length.
>
> All the string functions of "n" version should work when
> @s1 is not null-terminated, so don't call strlen() on @s1.

Fair enough, agreed.

Thank you,
André
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