On 2018/2/12 20:53, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:38 AM, Xiongfeng Wang
> <wangxiongfe...@huawei.com> wrote:
>> From: Xiongfeng Wang <xiongfeng.w...@linaro.org>
>>
>> gcc-8 reports
>>
>> drivers/auxdisplay/panel.c: In function 'panel_attach':
>> ./include/linux/string.h:245:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified
>> bound 12 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
>>
>> We need one less byte or call strlcpy() to make it a nul-terminated
>> string.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <xiongfeng.w...@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/auxdisplay/panel.c | 6 +++---
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/panel.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/panel.c
>> index ea7869c..d288900 100644
>> --- a/drivers/auxdisplay/panel.c
>> +++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/panel.c
>> @@ -1506,10 +1506,10 @@ static struct logical_input *panel_bind_key(const 
>> char *name, const char *press,
>>         key->rise_time = 1;
>>         key->fall_time = 1;
>>
>> -       strncpy(key->u.kbd.press_str, press, sizeof(key->u.kbd.press_str));
>> -       strncpy(key->u.kbd.repeat_str, repeat, 
>> sizeof(key->u.kbd.repeat_str));
>> +       strncpy(key->u.kbd.press_str, press, sizeof(key->u.kbd.press_str) - 
>> 1);
>> +       strncpy(key->u.kbd.repeat_str, repeat, sizeof(key->u.kbd.repeat_str) 
>> - 1);
>>         strncpy(key->u.kbd.release_str, release,
>> -               sizeof(key->u.kbd.release_str));
>> +               sizeof(key->u.kbd.release_str) - 1);
> 
> Are you sure about this patch? `kbd` says "strings can be non 
> null-terminated".
> 
> Willy, maybe those should just be memcpy()s? (unless the remaining
> bytes, if any, must be 0).
Sorry, my apologies. I think I made a mistake. I meant to use strlcpy(), but 
this
also decrease the destination storage size by one.
I think, if the strings can be non null-terminated,  we can just use memcpy().
This may suppress the gcc warning.

Thanks,
Xiongfeng

> 
> Thanks,
> Miguel
> 
>>         list_add(&key->list, &logical_inputs);
>>         return key;
>>  }
>> --
>> 1.8.3.1
>>
> 
> .
> 

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