On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 01:55:49PM -0500, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On 02/20/2015 01:42 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > strncpy() has a lot of pitfalls.  A while back we replaced all its uses by
> > calls to ovs_strlcpy() or ovs_strzcpy(), but some more have crept in.  This
> > commit fixes them.
> > 
> 
> Great, I like this a lot more than what I did.
> 
> 
> > @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ ovs_router_insert__(uint8_t priority, ovs_be32 ip_dst, 
> > uint8_t plen,
> >      rt_init_match(&match, ip_dst, plen);
> >  
> >      p = xzalloc(sizeof *p);
> > -    strncpy(p->output_bridge, output_bridge, IFNAMSIZ);
> > +    ovs_strlcpy(p->output_bridge, output_bridge, IFNAMSIZ);
> >      p->gw = gw;
> >      p->nw_addr = match.flow.nw_dst;
> >      p->plen = plen;
> 
> Just a nit ... I generally prefer "sizeof p->output_bridge", even though
> IFNAMSIZ is the same thing.  It seems like a less error prone pattern to
> default to since it's still correct if the destination size were to be
> changed.  I suppose you could argue it could result in accidental cases
> of getting the size of a pointer instead of the type, but at least
> coverity catches that.  Anyway, I changed several in passing in my
> changes.  I'm still +1 on your patch without it, though.

I thought about this issue too but I was concentrating on not changing
more than necessary.  I'll post a v2.
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