Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.18 39/65] fs/cifs: suppress a string overflow warning

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Sun Sep 30 2018 - 21:22:53 EST


Hi Sasha,

On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 00:38:27 +0000 Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit bcfb84a996f6fa90b5e6e2954b2accb7a4711097 ]
>
> A powerpc build of cifs with gcc v8.2.0 produces this warning:
>
> fs/cifs/cifssmb.c: In function âCIFSSMBNegotiateâ:
> fs/cifs/cifssmb.c:605:3: warning: âstrncpyâ writing 16 bytes into a region of size 1 overflows the destination [-Wstringop-overflow=]
> strncpy(pSMB->DialectsArray+count, protocols[i].name, 16);
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Since we are already doing a strlen() on the source, change the strncpy
> to a memcpy().
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Just wondering if this should be included as it only fixes a build
warning, there is no actual bug. Same for the 4.9 and 4.14 versions.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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