Re: [PATCH] scsi: bfa: bfad_attr.c: Optimization of the Code

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Thu Jun 05 2014 - 03:10:53 EST


On 06/05/14 08:55, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 06/04/14 20:08, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> This is ugly. Please use sprintf(buf, "%.*s\n", PAGE_SIZE - 1, str)
> instead of strncpy() + strlen().

(replying to my own e-mail)

The above should of course have read "sprintf(buf, "%.*s\n", PAGE_SIZE -
2, str)" to avoid that the terminating '\0' triggers a buffer overflow.

Bart.
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