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 b1286ed7158e9b62787508066283ab0b8850b518 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.
Apparently there was a patch for this floating around earlier, but it got lost.
Acked-again-by: Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- lib/test_hexdump.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/lib/test_hexdump.c +++ b/lib/test_hexdump.c @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static void __init test_hexdump_prepare_ const char *q = *result++; size_t amount = strlen(q);
- strncpy(p, q, amount); + memcpy(p, q, amount); p += amount;
*p++ = ' ';