Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2023 23:54:48 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] netfilter: ipset: refactor deprecated strncpy |
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On Wednesday 2023-08-09 23:40, Justin Stitt wrote: >On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 1:19 PM Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> wrote: >> >> Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> wrote: >> > Use `strscpy_pad` instead of `strncpy`. >> >> I don't think that any of these need zero-padding. >It's a more consistent change with the rest of the series and I don't >believe it has much different behavior to `strncpy` (other than >NUL-termination) as that will continue to pad to `n` as well. > >Do you think the `_pad` for 1/7, 6/7 and 7/7 should be changed back to >`strscpy` in a v3? I really am shooting in the dark as it is quite >hard to tell whether or not a buffer is expected to be NUL-padded or >not.
I don't recall either NF userspace or kernelspace code doing memcmp with name-like fields, so padding should not be strictly needed.
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