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 difficult to maintain.
The chosen alternative is to use strlcpy(), which properly limits the copy len in the (srclen >= size) case to "size - 1", and which is also more efficient than the strncpy() byte-by-byte implementation by using memcpy. The destination string returned by strlcpy() is always NULL terminated.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean@nxp.com --- drivers/net/armada100_fec.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/armada100_fec.c b/drivers/net/armada100_fec.c index 018891e173c3..5d4b90c6ba72 100644 --- a/drivers/net/armada100_fec.c +++ b/drivers/net/armada100_fec.c @@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ int armada100_fec_register(unsigned long base_addr) struct mii_dev *mdiodev = mdio_alloc(); if (!mdiodev) return -ENOMEM; - strncpy(mdiodev->name, dev->name, MDIO_NAME_LEN); + strlcpy(mdiodev->name, dev->name, MDIO_NAME_LEN); mdiodev->read = smi_reg_read; mdiodev->write = smi_reg_write;