From 8da01af45e197110cbce84fb5ccb54645f051ac6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:09:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool Avoid strncpy anti-pattern. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove the str[cpy|dup] altogether] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c index f8ebcde43b174..c6a06b71594d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c +++ b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) char *logfile = NULL; int loop = 0; int containerset = 0; - char containerpath[1024]; + char *containerpath = NULL; int cfd = 0; int forking = 0; sigset_t sigset; @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) break; case 'C': containerset = 1; - strncpy(containerpath, optarg, strlen(optarg) + 1); + containerpath = optarg; break; case 'w': logfile = strdup(optarg); -- GitLab