Subject: Re: [PATCH] sha1_name: use strlcpy() to copy strings

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 12:00:15 -0800

René Scharfe <[email-masked]> writes:

> Use strlcpy() instead of calling strncpy() and then setting the last
> byte of the target buffer to NUL explicitly.  This shortens and
> simplifies the code a bit.

Thanks.  It makes me wonder if the longer term direction should be
not to use a bound buffer for oc->path, though.

>
> Signed-of-by: Rene Scharfe <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  sha1_name.c | 8 ++------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
> index cf2a83b..95f9f8f 100644
> --- a/sha1_name.c
> +++ b/sha1_name.c
> @@ -1391,9 +1391,7 @@ static int get_sha1_with_context_1(const char *name,
>  			namelen = strlen(cp);
>  		}
>  
> -		strncpy(oc->path, cp,
> -			sizeof(oc->path));
> -		oc->path[sizeof(oc->path)-1] = '\0';
> +		strlcpy(oc->path, cp, sizeof(oc->path));
>  
>  		if (!active_cache)
>  			read_cache();
> @@ -1443,9 +1441,7 @@ static int get_sha1_with_context_1(const char *name,
>  							   name, len);
>  			}
>  			hashcpy(oc->tree, tree_sha1);
> -			strncpy(oc->path, filename,
> -				sizeof(oc->path));
> -			oc->path[sizeof(oc->path)-1] = '\0';
> +			strlcpy(oc->path, filename, sizeof(oc->path));
>  
>  			free(new_filename);
>  			return ret;