On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 06:51:36 -0700 Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote:
> Several uses of strlcpy and strscpy have had defects because the > last argument of each function is misused or typoed. > > Add macro mechanisms to avoid this defect. > > stracpy (copy a string to a string array) must have a string > array as the first argument (dest) and uses sizeof(dest) as the > count of bytes to copy. > > These mechanisms verify that the dest argument is an array of > char or other compatible types like u8 or s8 or equivalent. > > A BUILD_BUG is emitted when the type of dest is not compatible. > I'm still reluctant to merge this because we don't have code in -next which *uses* it. You did have a patch for that against v1, I believe? Please dust it off and send it along?
