Re: [PATCH 18/25] net: davinci_emac: ensure mdiodev->name is NULL terminated after MDIO_NAME_LEN truncation

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 2:22 PM Vladimir Oltean wrote: > > strncpy() simply bails out when copying a source string whose size > exceeds the destination string size, potentially leaving the destination > string unterminated. > > One possible way to address is to pass MDIO_NAME_LEN - 1 and a >

[PATCH 18/25] net: davinci_emac: ensure mdiodev->name is NULL terminated after MDIO_NAME_LEN truncation

strncpy() simply bails out when copying a source string whose size exceeds the destination string size, potentially leaving the destination string unterminated. One possible way to address is to pass MDIO_NAME_LEN - 1 and a previously zero-initialized destination string, but this is more