Re: [PATCH 11/20] hwmon: Manual replacement of the deprecated strlcpy() with return values

On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 07:46 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 2/22/21 7:12 AM, Romain Perier wrote: > > The strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first, it is dangerous if > > the source buffer lenght is unbounded or possibility non NULL-terminated. > > length > > > It can lead to linear read

Re: [PATCH 11/20] hwmon: Manual replacement of the deprecated strlcpy() with return values

On 2/22/21 7:12 AM, Romain Perier wrote: > The strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first, it is dangerous if > the source buffer lenght is unbounded or possibility non NULL-terminated. length > It can lead to linear read overflows, crashes, etc... > Not here. This description is

[PATCH 11/20] hwmon: Manual replacement of the deprecated strlcpy() with return values

The strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first, it is dangerous if the source buffer lenght is unbounded or possibility non NULL-terminated. It can lead to linear read overflows, crashes, etc... As recommended in the deprecated interfaces [1], it should be replaced by strscpy. This commit