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net: ethernet: marvell: sky2.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy

Message ID 1410716023-16068-1-git-send-email-rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Rickard Strandqvist Sept. 14, 2014, 5:33 p.m. UTC
Replacing strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that lacks null terminate.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Stephen Hemminger Sept. 15, 2014, 3:19 a.m. UTC | #1
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:33:43 +0200
Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se> wrote:

> Replacing strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that lacks null terminate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
> index dba48a5c..7053d38 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
> @@ -4907,7 +4907,7 @@ static const char *sky2_name(u8 chipid, char *buf, int sz)
>  	};
>  
>  	if (chipid >= CHIP_ID_YUKON_XL && chipid <= CHIP_ID_YUKON_OP_2)
> -		strncpy(buf, name[chipid - CHIP_ID_YUKON_XL], sz);
> +		strlcpy(buf, name[chipid - CHIP_ID_YUKON_XL], sz);
>  	else
>  		snprintf(buf, sz, "(chip %#x)", chipid);
>  	return buf;

Useless and unnecessary since the list of names is right there.
Why not avoid the copy?
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
index dba48a5c..7053d38 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
@@ -4907,7 +4907,7 @@  static const char *sky2_name(u8 chipid, char *buf, int sz)
 	};
 
 	if (chipid >= CHIP_ID_YUKON_XL && chipid <= CHIP_ID_YUKON_OP_2)
-		strncpy(buf, name[chipid - CHIP_ID_YUKON_XL], sz);
+		strlcpy(buf, name[chipid - CHIP_ID_YUKON_XL], sz);
 	else
 		snprintf(buf, sz, "(chip %#x)", chipid);
 	return buf;