Re: [PATCH] atmel: using strlcpy() to avoid possible buffer overflows

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Jun 29 2018 - 17:47:22 EST


On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 5:51 AM, YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 'firmware' is a module param which may been longer than firmware_id,
> so using strlcpy() to guard against overflows

strncat() is against overflow, this does a bit more.

> priv->firmware_id[0] = '\0';
...
> if (firmware) /* module parameter */
> - strcpy(priv->firmware_id, firmware);
> + strlcpy(priv->firmware_id, firmware, sizeof(priv->firmware_id));

In either case the above '\0' is not needed.
But it looks like the intention was to use strncat() / strlcat().

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko