Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/tty/hvc: fixup original commit: 9276dfd27897a0b29d8b5814f39a1f82f56b6b6b

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:46:04 +1100

On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 11:38 +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>   originally I did not notice src buf len and dest buf len are the same.
>     so origianlly, it is not a bug issue, it is only for beautify code.
>     and now, using strcpy is better.

Being the same len doesn't mean it's safe to use strcpy ... the source
might be missing the 0 terminator. In this specific case though, I
believe the source string comes was itself populated with strlcpy
(at least since your patch 6b6680c4ea3952af8ae76915cbca41245147741b) so
strcpy is indeed safe but using strlcpy doesn't hurt does it ?

Ben.

> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c
> index 81e939e..9330a4b 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c
> @@ -885,8 +885,7 @@ static void hvcs_set_pi(struct hvcs_partner_info
> *pi, struct hvcs_struct *hvcsd)
>  	hvcsd->p_partition_ID  = pi->partition_ID;
> 
>  	/* copy the null-term char too */
> -	strlcpy(&hvcsd->p_location_code[0],
> -			&pi->location_code[0], sizeof(hvcsd->p_location_code));
> +	strcpy(&hvcsd->p_location_code[0], &pi->location_code[0]);
>  }
> 
>  /*