Re: [PATCH net-next v3] tipc: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy in tipc_bearer_get_name()

[Ajith P V]

Thank you Tung Quang Nguyen and David Laight for the suggestions.

> Should the TIPC_MAX_BEARER_NAME requirement be spelled out in the comment
> or in the prototype, so that the interface and the body agree?
> In the current tree there is no behavioural change: the only caller is
> __tipc_nl_add_monitor() in net/tipc/monitor.c, which declares
> char bearer_name[TIPC_MAX_BEARER_NAME], and the source is
> char name[TIPC_MAX_BEARER_NAME] in struct tipc_bearer, so the copy can
> neither truncate nor overflow.
> The strscpy() return value is also discarded, so a future caller passing a
> smaller buffer would get a silently truncated name plus a return of 0.
> Would passing a size_t len from the caller (sizeof(bearer_name)) and
> forwarding strscpy()'s -E2BIG through the existing int return be preferable
> to a hard-coded bound?

I will update the patch with the above fixes and send the new version after Aug 31st.

Regards,
Ajith P V