gcc 8.1.0 warns with: kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c: In function ‘kallsyms_symbol_next’: kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:239:4: warning: ‘strncpy’ specified bound depends on the length of the source argument [-Wstringop-overflow=] strncpy(prefix_name, name, strlen(name)+1); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:239:31: note: length computed here
The strings do not need to be zero padded so use strlcpy() instead. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <pra...@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Toppins <jtopp...@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wes...@windriver.com> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thomp...@linaro.org> --- kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c index 990b3cc526c8..1ad4370ccbf0 100644 --- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c +++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ int kallsyms_symbol_next(char *prefix_name, int flag) while ((name = kdb_walk_kallsyms(&pos))) { if (strncmp(name, prefix_name, prefix_len) == 0) { - strncpy(prefix_name, name, strlen(name)+1); + strlcpy(prefix_name, name, strlen(name)+1); return 1; } } -- 2.18.0 _______________________________________________ Kgdb-bugreport mailing list Kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kgdb-bugreport