On 06/05/2013 09:49:30 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
Avoid strncpy anti-pattern. Use strdup() instead, as already done for
the logfile optarg.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
---
Fix for -mm clean-up-scary-strncpydst-src-strlensrc-uses-fix.patch
---
 Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
index f8ebcde..1db89d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
        char *logfile = NULL;
        int loop = 0;
        int containerset = 0;
-       char containerpath[1024];
+       char *containerpath = NULL;
        int cfd = 0;
        int forking = 0;
        sigset_t sigset;
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                        break;
                case 'C':
                        containerset = 1;
- strncpy(containerpath, optarg, strlen(optarg) + 1);
+                       containerpath = strdup(optarg);

*boggle* That an elaborate way of doing a standard strcpy(), isn't it?

(Assuming free() being done by exit() is ok, and that somebody's going to be modifying this string so just keeping the pointer to optarg might make ps look weird...)

Acked-by: Rob Landley <[email protected]>

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