Hi Steve,

On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 16:56 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 16:50:00 -0500
> Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> > > @@ -4695,9 +4695,10 @@ static inline void add_to_key(char
> > > *compound_key, void *key,
> > >           /* ensure NULL-termination */
> > >           if (size > key_field->size - 1)
> > >                   size = key_field->size - 1;
> > > - }
> > >  
> > > - memcpy(compound_key + key_field->offset, key, size);
> > > +         strncpy(compound_key + key_field->offset, (char *)key,
> > > size);
> > > + } else
> > > +         memcpy(compound_key + key_field->offset, key, size);
> > >  }
> > >    
> > 
> > Shouldn't we use strncpy() in save_comm() too. Feels safer.
> 
> Note, if that is changed, it can be another patch. This one is fine
> as
> is. I just was looking at other use cases of memcpy() in that file.
> 

Hmm, I don't think it's really necessary - it's not used in a key so
don't care about anything after the null, and TASK_COMM_LEN is used in
the memcpy.

Tom

> -- Steve

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