commit 9238c2099d37748a4e2cbbe709ed1ebffa6f3c8b
author Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Thu Oct 04 13:09:56 2012 +0200
committer Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Fri Oct 05 07:58:37 2012 -0500
tree a2a3b8b714380d4c8e6013b795c0a70f157fc48a
parent e5fda03839e3c61b01d6c60de5625501d01c69d0

virtio-9p: avoid unwarranted uses of strncpy

In all of these cases, the uses of strncpy were unnecessary, since
at each point of use we know that the NUL-terminated source bytes
fit in the destination buffer.  Use memcpy in place of strncpy.

Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-posix-acl.c

diff --git a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-posix-acl.c b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-posix-acl.c
index a1948e3..c064017 100644
--- a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-posix-acl.c
+++ b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-posix-acl.c
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@
         return -1;
     }
 
-    strncpy(value, ACL_ACCESS, len);
+    /* len includes the trailing NUL */
+    memcpy(value, ACL_ACCESS, len);
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -95,7 +96,8 @@
         return -1;
     }
 
-    strncpy(value, ACL_DEFAULT, len);
+    /* len includes the trailing NUL */
+    memcpy(value, ACL_ACCESS, len);
     return 0;
 }
 

hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-xattr-user.c

diff --git a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-xattr-user.c b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-xattr-user.c
index 5044a3e..5bb6020 100644
--- a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-xattr-user.c
+++ b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-xattr-user.c
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@
         return -1;
     }
 
-    strncpy(value, name, name_size);
+    /* name_size includes the trailing NUL. */
+    memcpy(value, name, name_size);
     return name_size;
 }
 

hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-xattr.c

diff --git a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-xattr.c b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-xattr.c
index 7f08f6e..a839606 100644
--- a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-xattr.c
+++ b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-xattr.c
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@
         return -1;
     }
 
-    strncpy(value, name, name_size);
+    /* no need for strncpy: name_size is strlen(name)+1 */
+    memcpy(value, name, name_size);
     return name_size;
 }