[PATCH v2 1/5] lib: string: Fix strlcpy return value

Sean Anderson seanga2 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 06:15:41 CET 2021


strlcpy should always return the number of bytes copied. We were
accidentally missing the nul-terminator. We also always used to return a
non-zero value, even if we did not actually copy anything.

Fixes: 23cd138503 ("Integrate USB gadget layer and USB CDC driver layer")

Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>
---

Changes in v2:
- New

 lib/string.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 73b984123d..1b867ac09d 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -114,17 +114,21 @@ char * strncpy(char * dest,const char *src,size_t count)
  * NUL-terminated string that fits in the buffer (unless,
  * of course, the buffer size is zero). It does not pad
  * out the result like strncpy() does.
+ *
+ * Return: the number of bytes copied
  */
 size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
 {
-	size_t ret = strlen(src);
-
 	if (size) {
-		size_t len = (ret >= size) ? size - 1 : ret;
+		size_t srclen = strlen(src);
+		size_t len = (srclen >= size) ? size - 1 : srclen;
+
 		memcpy(dest, src, len);
 		dest[len] = '\0';
+		return len + 1;
 	}
-	return ret;
+
+	return 0;
 }
 #endif
 
-- 
2.30.1



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