Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] lib: introduce strncpy_from_unsafe()

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On 8/28/15 2:48 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >   * On success, returns the length of the string (not including the trailing
> > >+ * NUL).
> I think it includes the NUL.

oops. yes. that was a copy paste from strncpy_from_user comment.
trace_kprobe usage wants NUL to be counted, so I intended to have it
counted, but that brings the question what should be the semantics.
Should it be similar to strncpy_from_user (not counting NUL) or
similar to strlen_user (counts NUL) ?
imo counting NUL makes a little bit more sense, since when a user says
strncpy_from_unsafe(..., ..., 32)
and it returns 32 as the whole buffer was filled, it looks cleaner.
Thoughts?


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