Re: [PATCH] s390: net: qeth_core_main.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy

[Ursula Braun]

On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 16:35 +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> Replacing strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that lacks null terminate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
> index f54bec5..ec9b4d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
> @@ -5275,7 +5275,7 @@ static int qeth_add_dbf_entry(struct qeth_card *card, char *name)
>  	new_entry = kzalloc(sizeof(struct qeth_dbf_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!new_entry)
>  		goto err_dbg;
> -	strncpy(new_entry->dbf_name, name, DBF_NAME_LEN);
> +	strlcpy(new_entry->dbf_name, name, DBF_NAME_LEN);
>  	new_entry->dbf_info = card->debug;
>  	mutex_lock(&qeth_dbf_list_mutex);
>  	list_add(&new_entry->dbf_list, &qeth_dbf_list);

It is guaranteed that the string ch->id always fits into DBF_NAME_LEN.
What's in this case the benefit of replacing strncpy() by strlcpy()
here?

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