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Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 4/9] em28xx: fix em28xx_dvb_init for KASAN
Thread-Topic: [PATCH v4 4/9] em28xx: fix em28xx_dvb_init for KASAN
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From: Arnd Bergmann
> Sent: 22 September 2017 22:29
...
> It seems that this is triggered in part by using strlcpy(), which the
> compiler doesn't recognize as copying at most 'len' bytes, since strlcpy
> is not part of the C standard.

Neither is strncpy().

It'll almost certainly be a marker in a header file somewhere,
so it should be possibly to teach it about other functions.

	David