[PATCH] string: use strnlen in strlcat
From: Thorsten Blum
Date: Thu Apr 30 2026 - 16:54:00 EST
Use strnlen() to limit the destination scan to the provided buffer size.
Remove the redundant comment.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/string.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index b632c71df1a5..7b67e186d898 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -251,12 +251,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncat);
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLCAT
size_t strlcat(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count)
{
- size_t dsize = strlen(dest);
+ size_t dsize = strnlen(dest, count);
size_t len = strlen(src);
size_t res = dsize + len;
- /* This would be a bug */
- BUG_ON(dsize >= count);
+ BUG_ON(dsize == count);
dest += dsize;
count -= dsize;