Re: [PATCHv3 1/2] scsi: ibmvscsis: Fix a stringop-overflow warning
From: Ly, Bryant
Date: Mon Sep 17 2018 - 20:45:28 EST
> On Sep 11, 2018, at 2:22 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There's currently a warning about string overflow with strncat:
>
> drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c: In function 'ibmvscsis_probe':
> drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c:3479:2: error: 'strncat' specified
> bound 64 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
> strncat(vscsi->eye, vdev->name, MAX_EYE);
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Switch to a single snprintf instead of a strcpy + strcat to handle this
> cleanly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v3: Make sure there is an extra space in the partition name
> ---
> drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Bryant G. Ly bly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I sent a PR to update my email from bryantly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a week ago.
-Bryant