Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: marvell: sky2.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Sun Sep 14 2014 - 23:19:19 EST


On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:33:43 +0200
Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Replacing strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that lacks null terminate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
> index dba48a5c..7053d38 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
> @@ -4907,7 +4907,7 @@ static const char *sky2_name(u8 chipid, char *buf, int sz)
> };
>
> if (chipid >= CHIP_ID_YUKON_XL && chipid <= CHIP_ID_YUKON_OP_2)
> - strncpy(buf, name[chipid - CHIP_ID_YUKON_XL], sz);
> + strlcpy(buf, name[chipid - CHIP_ID_YUKON_XL], sz);
> else
> snprintf(buf, sz, "(chip %#x)", chipid);
> return buf;

Useless and unnecessary since the list of names is right there.
Why not avoid the copy?
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