From: Rickard Strandqvist Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:02:12 +0000 (+0200) Subject: parisc: pdc_stable.c: Cleaning up unnecessary use of memset in conjunction with strncpy X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~3187^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=94c457deff2a211f8372f69a4d7b0d288183756a;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git parisc: pdc_stable.c: Cleaning up unnecessary use of memset in conjunction with strncpy Using memset before strncpy just to ensure a trailing null character is an unnecessary double writing of a string Patch modified by Helge Deller to additionally reduce stack usage. Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist Signed-off-by: Helge Deller --- diff --git a/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c b/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c index 0f54ab6260df..e4b73c2a053a 100644 --- a/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c +++ b/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ static ssize_t pdcs_auto_write(struct kobject *kobj, { struct pdcspath_entry *pathentry; unsigned char flags; - char in[count+1], *temp; + char in[8], *temp; char c; if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) @@ -765,8 +765,9 @@ static ssize_t pdcs_auto_write(struct kobject *kobj, return -EINVAL; /* We'll use a local copy of buf */ - memset(in, 0, count+1); + count = min_t(size_t, count, 7); strncpy(in, buf, count); + in[count] = '\0'; /* Current flags are stored in primary boot path entry */ pathentry = &pdcspath_entry_primary;