Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:44:58 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: SECURITY - data leakage due to incorrect strncpy implementation |
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On 11 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > Lots of kernel drivers rely on the libc definition of strncpy.
But that's ok. We _do_ do the padding. I hated it when I wrote it, but as far as I know, the kernel strncpy() has done padding pretty much since day one.
Yes, strlcpy() conversion users need to be careful, but I think we mostly _were_ careful. Knock wood.
Linus
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