Re: [PATCH] tools lib api fs: fix gcc9 compilation error

[Petr Mladek]

On Wed 2019-12-11 08:01:09, Andrey Zhizhikin wrote:
> GCC9 introduced string hardening mechanisms, which exhibits the error
> during fs api compilation:
> 
> error: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 4096 equals destination size
> [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
> 
> This comes when the length of copy passed to strncpy is is equal to
> destination size, which could potentially lead to buffer overflow.
> 
> There is a need to mitigate this potential issue by limiting the size of
> destination by 1 and explicitly terminate the destination with NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.zhizhikin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>

Best Regards,
Petr