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From: "Shaikh, Shahed" <Shahed.Shaikh@cavium.com>
To: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>,
	Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	"dev-bounces@dpdk.org" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/18] drivers: net: qede: fix strncpy constant and NUL
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 23:33:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM2PR07MB1547D5195170FE41B56366879D9A0@DM2PR07MB1547.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a02e7b38-dfee-1c0d-46bc-65adca288e36@warmcat.com>


> >>> I think you can retain OSAL_STRNCPY and just replace 30 with
> >> 'bit_name[sizeof(bit_name) - 1'  and then set last byte with '\0' just like you
> did.
> >>
> >> Can that actually be fixed inside OSAL_STRNCPY itself, rather than
> >> having each use needing to explicitly null-terminate?
> >
> > Although there is only instance of OSAL_STRNCPY, it makes sense to modify it.
> 
> Doesn't it make more sense to get rid of OSAL_* that bring nothing at all to the
> party?
> 
> #define OSAL_SPRINTF(name, pattern, ...) \
>          sprintf(name, pattern, ##__VA_ARGS__) #define OSAL_SNPRINTF(buf, size,
> format, ...) \
>          snprintf(buf, size, format, ##__VA_ARGS__) #define OSAL_STRLEN(string)
> strlen(string) #define OSAL_STRCPY(dst, string) strcpy(dst, string) #define
> OSAL_STRNCPY(dst, string, len) strncpy(dst, string, len) #define
> OSAL_STRCMP(str1, str2) strcmp(str1, str2)
> 
> Do I miss the point or these are just cruft?

Hi Andy,

I'll send a cleanup patch for this. For now, you can go ahead with original patch.

Thanks,
Shahed

Acked-by: Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@cavium.com>

> 
> -Andy
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Shahed
> >

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-08 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-08  4:29 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/18] Fix build on gcc8 and various bugs Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/18] lib: ret_table: workaround hash function cast error Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/18] drivers: bus: pci: fix strncpy dangerous code Andy Green
2018-05-08  8:57   ` Bruce Richardson
2018-05-08  4:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/18] drivers: bus: dpaa: fix inconsistent struct alignment Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/18] drivers: net: axgbe: fix broken eeprom string comp Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/18] drivers: net: nfp: nfpcore: fix strncpy misuse Andy Green
2018-05-08  8:58   ` Bruce Richardson
2018-05-08  9:00     ` Andy Green
2018-05-08  9:03       ` Bruce Richardson
2018-05-08  4:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/18] drivers: net: nfp: nfpcore fix off-by-one and no NUL on strncpy use Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/18] drivers: net: nfp: don't memcpy out of source range Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/18] drivers: net: nfp: fix buffer overflow in fw_name Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/18] drivers: net: qede: fix strncpy constant and NUL Andy Green
2018-05-08 17:59   ` Shaikh, Shahed
2018-05-08 19:53     ` Bruce Richardson
2018-05-08 20:02       ` Shaikh, Shahed
2018-05-08 22:07         ` Andy Green
2018-05-08 23:33           ` Shaikh, Shahed [this message]
2018-05-08  4:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/18] drivers: net: qede: fix broken strncpy Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/18] drivers:net:sfc: fix strncpy length Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 12/18] drivers: net: sfc: fix another strncpy size and NUL Andy Green
2018-05-08  7:36   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-05-08  8:18     ` Andy Green
2018-05-08  9:02       ` Bruce Richardson
2018-05-08  9:08       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-05-08  4:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 13/18] drivers: net: vdev: readlink inputs cannot be aliased Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 14/18] drivers: net: vdev: fix 3 x strncpy misuse Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 15/18] test-pmd: can't find include Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 16/18] app: fix sprintf overrun bug Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 17/18] app: test-bbdev: strcpy ok for allocated string Andy Green
2018-05-08  4:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 18/18] app: test-bbdev: strcpy ok for allocated string 2 Andy Green

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