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author | Sean Anderson <seanga2@gmail.com> | 2021-03-11 00:15:45 -0500 |
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committer | Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> | 2021-04-12 17:44:55 -0400 |
commit | d9c305071069164feceaff3e543c61693bc2c401 (patch) | |
tree | ba458cbfbe3747fd097207451e9cf543ca7f2cfd /include/ide.h | |
parent | 69a752983171c2983fc1f29c7cfa1844f41e5d8b (diff) | |
download | u-boot-d9c305071069164feceaff3e543c61693bc2c401.tar.gz |
checkpatch: Add warnings for using strn(cat|cpy)
strn(cat|cpy) has a bad habit of not nul-terminating the destination,
resulting in constructions like
strncpy(foo, bar, sizeof(foo) - 1);
foo[sizeof(foo) - 1] = '\0';
However, it is very easy to forget about this behavior and accidentally
leave a string unterminated. This has shown up in some recent coverity
scans [1, 2] (including code recently touched by yours truly).
Fortunately, the guys at OpenBSD came up with strl(cat|cpy), which always
nul-terminate strings. These functions are already in U-Boot, so we should
encourage new code to use them instead of strn(cat|cpy).
[1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-March/442888.html
[2] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-January/438073.html
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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