[PATCH v2 5/5] vhost: use strlcpy instead of strncpy

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Fri Dec 20 14:37:26 CET 2024


On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 02:49:55PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Some tools such as gcc address sanitizer will complain if strncpy
> is used to completely fill a string since it will not be null
> terminated. Since the previous code forced as null at end,
> use strlcpy() to get the same effect.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---
>  lib/vhost/socket.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/vhost/socket.c b/lib/vhost/socket.c
> index d29d15494c..f938189cc2 100644
> --- a/lib/vhost/socket.c
> +++ b/lib/vhost/socket.c
> @@ -359,8 +359,7 @@ create_unix_socket(struct vhost_user_socket *vsocket)
>  
>  	memset(un, 0, sizeof(*un));
>  	un->sun_family = AF_UNIX;
> -	strncpy(un->sun_path, vsocket->path, sizeof(un->sun_path));
> -	un->sun_path[sizeof(un->sun_path) - 1] = '\0';
> +	strlcpy(un->sun_path, vsocket->path, sizeof(un->sun_path));
>  

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>


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