[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] serial-uclass.c: Copy at most sdev.name - 1 characters into the buffer

[Simon Glass]

On 7 December 2015 at 20:26, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> Coverity notes that we do not ensure a NULL terminated string here as we
> could fill the entire buffer with our strncpy call.  Fix this by
> subtracting one.
>
> Reported-by: Coverity (CID 131093)
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> ---
>  drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

>
> diff --git a/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c b/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c
> index 842f78b..2ef82b0 100644
> --- a/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c
> +++ b/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c
> @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ static int serial_post_probe(struct udevice *dev)
>                 return 0;
>         memset(&sdev, '\0', sizeof(sdev));
>
> -       strncpy(sdev.name, dev->name, sizeof(sdev.name));
> +       strncpy(sdev.name, dev->name, sizeof(sdev.name) - 1);

There is also strlcpy() if you want it.

>         sdev.flags = DEV_FLAGS_OUTPUT | DEV_FLAGS_INPUT;
>         sdev.priv = dev;
>         sdev.putc = serial_stub_putc;
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>