readline: avoid memcpy() of overlapping regions
authorNickolai Zeldovich <nickolai@csail.mit.edu>
Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:38:39 +0000 (15:38 -0500)
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Tue, 8 Jan 2013 09:00:26 +0000 (10:00 +0100)
memcpy() for overlapping regions is undefined behavior; use memmove()
instead in readline_hist_add().

[Keep tab characters since surrounding code still uses them -- Stefan]

Signed-off-by: Nickolai Zeldovich <nickolai@csail.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
readline.c

index 5fc9643..a0c9638 100644 (file)
@@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ static void readline_hist_add(ReadLineState *rs, const char *cmdline)
     if (idx == READLINE_MAX_CMDS) {
        /* Need to get one free slot */
        free(rs->history[0]);
-       memcpy(rs->history, &rs->history[1],
-              (READLINE_MAX_CMDS - 1) * sizeof(char *));
+       memmove(rs->history, &rs->history[1],
+               (READLINE_MAX_CMDS - 1) * sizeof(char *));
        rs->history[READLINE_MAX_CMDS - 1] = NULL;
        idx = READLINE_MAX_CMDS - 1;
     }