[PATCH 2/2] staging: rtl8712u: Fix compiler warning about strncpy
Larry Finger
Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Mon Aug 20 17:51:24 UTC 2018
When strncpy() is called with source and destination strings the same
length, gcc 8 warns that there may be an unterminated string. Using
strlcpy() rather than strncpy() forces a null at the end and quiets the
warning.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
index c3ff7c3e6681..08e1c0957a07 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -1789,7 +1789,7 @@ static int r871x_wx_set_enc_ext(struct net_device *dev,
return -ENOMEM;
param->cmd = IEEE_CMD_SET_ENCRYPTION;
eth_broadcast_addr(param->sta_addr);
- strncpy((char *)param->u.crypt.alg, alg_name, IEEE_CRYPT_ALG_NAME_LEN);
+ strlcpy((char *)param->u.crypt.alg, alg_name, IEEE_CRYPT_ALG_NAME_LEN);
if (pext->ext_flags & IW_ENCODE_EXT_GROUP_KEY)
param->u.crypt.set_tx = 0;
if (pext->ext_flags & IW_ENCODE_EXT_SET_TX_KEY)
--
2.18.0
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