Re: [PATCH] [media] rainshadow-cec: use strlcat instead of strncat

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:14 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19/04/17 19:15, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> gcc warns about an obviously incorrect use of strncat():
>>
>> drivers/media/usb/rainshadow-cec/rainshadow-cec.c: In function 'rain_cec_adap_transmit':
>> drivers/media/usb/rainshadow-cec/rainshadow-cec.c:299:4: error: specified bound 48 equals the size of the destination [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
>>
>> It seems that strlcat was intended here, and using that makes the
>> code correct.
>
> Oops! You're right, it should be strlcat.
>
> Which gcc version do you use? Mine (6.3.0) didn't give an error (or warning, for that matter).

I think the warning was only added in gcc-7.0.1.

     Arnd