Re: [PATCH] docs: deprecated.rst: Clean up fall-through details

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Mar 10 2020 - 15:22:26 EST


On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:23:56AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 11:03:24 -0800
> Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Add example of fall-through, list-ify the case ending statements, and
> > adjust the markup for links and readability. While here, adjust
> > strscpy() details to mention strscpy_pad().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied, thanks. But ...
>
> > ---
> > Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 48 +++++++++++++++++-----------
> > 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
> > index 179f2a5625a0..f9f196d3a69b 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
> > @@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ and other misbehavior due to the missing termination. It also NUL-pads the
> > destination buffer if the source contents are shorter than the destination
> > buffer size, which may be a needless performance penalty for callers using
> > only NUL-terminated strings. The safe replacement is :c:func:`strscpy`.
> > -(Users of :c:func:`strscpy` still needing NUL-padding will need an
> > -explicit :c:func:`memset` added.)
> > +(Users of :c:func:`strscpy` still needing NUL-padding should instead
> > +use strscpy_pad().)
>
> :c:func: usage should really be stomped on when we encounter it. There's
> a few in this file; I'll tack on a quick patch making them go away.

Oops, yes, I meant to do another pass for that. I will double-check
future patches!

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Kees Cook