From: Guenter Roeck Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 20:57:13 +0000 (-0700) Subject: kernfs: Replace strncpy with memcpy X-Git-Tag: v3.18.129~37 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4952646d46e37ee5c4428ef336307e40f369f90f;p=profile%2Fwearable%2Fplatform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-3.18-exynos7270.git kernfs: Replace strncpy with memcpy commit 166126c1e54d927c2e8efa2702d420e0ce301fd9 upstream. gcc 8.1.0 complains: fs/kernfs/symlink.c:91:3: warning: 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul copying as many bytes from a string as its length fs/kernfs/symlink.c: In function 'kernfs_iop_get_link': fs/kernfs/symlink.c:88:14: note: length computed here Using strncpy() is indeed less than perfect since the length of data to be copied has already been determined with strlen(). Replace strncpy() with memcpy() to address the warning and optimize the code a little. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/fs/kernfs/symlink.c b/fs/kernfs/symlink.c index 8a19889..36ea6a9 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/symlink.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/symlink.c @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ static int kernfs_get_target_path(struct kernfs_node *parent, int slen = strlen(kn->name); len -= slen; - strncpy(s + len, kn->name, slen); + memcpy(s + len, kn->name, slen); if (len) s[--len] = '/';