Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 4.9 003/101] test_hexdump: use memcpy instead of strncpy Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 15:38:02 +0100 Message-Id: <20181206143011.815189571@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20181206143011.174892052@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20181206143011.174892052@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Linus Torvalds commit b1286ed7158e9b62787508066283ab0b8850b518 upstream. New versions of gcc reasonably warn about the odd pattern of strncpy(p, q, strlen(q)); which really doesn't make sense: the strncpy() ends up being just a slow and odd way to write memcpy() in this case. Apparently there was a patch for this floating around earlier, but it got lost. Acked-again-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- lib/test_hexdump.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/lib/test_hexdump.c +++ b/lib/test_hexdump.c @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static void __init test_hexdump_prepare_ const char *q = *result++; size_t amount = strlen(q); - strncpy(p, q, amount); + memcpy(p, q, amount); p += amount; *p++ = ' ';