Re: [PATCH] cpupower: remove stringop-truncation waring

[Shuah Khan]

On 08/21/2018 06:02 AM, Anders Roxell wrote:
> The strncpy doesn't null terminate the string because the size is too
> short by one byte.
> 
> parse.c: In function âprepare_default_configâ:
> parse.c:148:2: warning: âstrncpyâ output truncated before terminating
>     nul copying 8 bytes from a string of the same length
>     [-Wstringop-truncation]
>   strncpy(config->governor, "ondemand", 8);
>   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Passing the length of the input argument to strncpy() is almost always
> wrong and provides no extra benefit over strcpy(), and since 'ondemand'
> fits within 15 bytes" and it null terminates the string its safe to use
> strcpy().
> 
> Fixes: 7fe2f6399a84 ("cpupowerutils - cpufrequtils extended with quite some features")
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/power/cpupower/bench/parse.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/bench/parse.c b/tools/power/cpupower/bench/parse.c
> index 9ba8a44ad2a7..91b5b768ffd2 100644
> --- a/tools/power/cpupower/bench/parse.c
> +++ b/tools/power/cpupower/bench/parse.c
> @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ struct config *prepare_default_config()
>  	config->cpu = 0;
>  	config->prio = SCHED_HIGH;
>  	config->verbose = 0;
> -	strncpy(config->governor, "ondemand", 8);
> +	strcpy(config->governor, "ondemand");
This change is fine, however continuing to use strncpy with sizeof(config->governor).

thanks,
-- Shuah