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SubjectRe: [PATCH] video/hdmi: prefer strlcpy to strncpy
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:59 PM, Nick Desaulniers
<nick.desaulniers@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fixes a stringop-truncation warning from gcc-8.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/video/hdmi.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/hdmi.c b/drivers/video/hdmi.c
> index 111a0ab..46c184c 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/hdmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/hdmi.c
> @@ -168,8 +168,8 @@ int hdmi_spd_infoframe_init(struct hdmi_spd_infoframe *frame,
> frame->version = 1;
> frame->length = HDMI_SPD_INFOFRAME_SIZE;
>
> - strncpy(frame->vendor, vendor, sizeof(frame->vendor));
> - strncpy(frame->product, product, sizeof(frame->product));
> + strlcpy(frame->vendor, vendor, sizeof(frame->vendor));
> + strlcpy(frame->product, product, sizeof(frame->product));
>
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 2.7.4
>

Eric points out this can leak kernel memory if size is less than length of src.

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