Hi Steve,

On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 16:22 -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 16:56 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 16:50:00 -0500
> > Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> > > > @@ -4695,9 +4695,10 @@ static inline void add_to_key(char
> > > > *compound_key, void *key,
> > > >                 /* ensure NULL-termination */
> > > >                 if (size > key_field->size - 1)
> > > >                         size = key_field->size - 1;
> > > > -       }
> > > >  
> > > > -       memcpy(compound_key + key_field->offset, key, size);
> > > > +               strncpy(compound_key + key_field->offset, (char
> > > > *)key,
> > > > size);
> > > > +       } else
> > > > +               memcpy(compound_key + key_field->offset, key,
> > > > size);
> > > >  }
> > > >    
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't we use strncpy() in save_comm() too. Feels safer.
> > 
> > Note, if that is changed, it can be another patch. This one is fine
> > as
> > is. I just was looking at other use cases of memcpy() in that file.
> > 
> 
> Hmm, I don't think it's really necessary - it's not used in a key so
> don't care about anything after the null, and TASK_COMM_LEN is used
> in
> the memcpy.

Never mind, yeah, it would make sense to do this, will create another
patch...

Tom


> 
> Tom
> 
> > -- Steve

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