4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org
commit 38c7b224ce22c25fed04007839edf974bd13439d upstream.
New versions of gcc reasonably warn about the odd pattern of
strncpy(p, q, strlen(q));
which really doesn't make sense: the strncpy() ends up being just a slow and odd way to write memcpy() in this case.
There was a comment about _why_ the code used strncpy - to avoid the terminating NUL byte, but memcpy does the same and avoids the warning.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- scripts/unifdef.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/scripts/unifdef.c +++ b/scripts/unifdef.c @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ usage(void) * When we have processed a group that starts off with a known-false * #if/#elif sequence (which has therefore been deleted) followed by a * #elif that we don't understand and therefore must keep, we edit the - * latter into a #if to keep the nesting correct. We use strncpy() to + * latter into a #if to keep the nesting correct. We use memcpy() to * overwrite the 4 byte token "elif" with "if " without a '\0' byte. * * When we find a true #elif in a group, the following block will @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ static void Idrop (void) { Fdrop(); ign static void Itrue (void) { Ftrue(); ignoreon(); } static void Ifalse(void) { Ffalse(); ignoreon(); } /* modify this line */ -static void Mpass (void) { strncpy(keyword, "if ", 4); Pelif(); } +static void Mpass (void) { memcpy(keyword, "if ", 4); Pelif(); } static void Mtrue (void) { keywordedit("else"); state(IS_TRUE_MIDDLE); } static void Melif (void) { keywordedit("endif"); state(IS_FALSE_TRAILER); } static void Melse (void) { keywordedit("endif"); state(IS_FALSE_ELSE); }