Re: [PATCH] Btrfs-progs use safe string manipulation functions

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On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 12:08 +0100, Thomas Bellman wrote:
> On 2011-02-07 13:22, Eduardo Silva wrote:
> 
> > Please find the attached patch which replace unsafe strcpy(3) by
> > strncpy(3) functions.
> 
> strncpy() doesn't NUL-terminate the destination buffer if the
> maximum length is reached.  And as far as I can see, there is
> no other initialization of those buffers to zeroes, except for
> super.label in make_btrfs() in utils.c.
> 
> So please change those strncpy() calls to something like:
> 
>     strncpy(args.name, source, BTRFS_PATH_NAME_MAX);
>     args.name[BTRFS_PATH_NAME_MAX] = '\0';
> 

Seems like a string manipulation function is the way to go, will send a
new patch shortly, 

best, 

Eduardo

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