Re: [PATCH] x86, cpuinfo x86_model_id whitespace cleanup

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:25:59PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Using strlcpy in this manner could fail if it does larger than byte
> copies and they overlap.

Why?

AFAICT, strlcpy() calls memcpy() and memcpy should handle overlapping
buffers just fine.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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