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[03/22] vmdk: relative_path: avoid buffer overrun

Message ID 1336555446-20180-4-git-send-email-jim@meyering.net
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Jim Meyering May 9, 2012, 9:23 a.m. UTC 
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>

strncpy does not guarantee NUL-termination.
Setting dest[n-1] = '\0' *before* calling strncpy(dest, src, n-1)
is a no-op.  Use pstrcpy to ensure NUL-termination, not strncpy.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
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 block/vmdk.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/block/vmdk.c b/block/vmdk.c
index 18e9b4c..045e279 100644
--- a/block/vmdk.c
+++ b/block/vmdk.c
@@ -1319,8 +1319,7 @@  static int relative_path(char *dest, int dest_size,
         return -1;
     }
     if (path_is_absolute(target)) {
-        dest[dest_size - 1] = '\0';
-        strncpy(dest, target, dest_size - 1);
+        pstrcpy(dest, dest_size - 1, target);
         return 0;
     }
     while (base[i] == target[i]) {