Re: [PATCH] doc: avoid strncpy in accounting tool

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 19:49:30 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> Avoid strncpy anti-pattern. Use strdup() instead, as already done for
> the logfile optarg.
> 

What Andreas said :)

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: documentation-accounting-getdelaysc-avoid-strncpy-in-accounting-tool-fix

remove the str[cpy|dup] altogether

Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c~documentation-accounting-getdelaysc-avoid-strncpy-in-accounting-tool-fix Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
--- a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c~documentation-accounting-getdelaysc-avoid-strncpy-in-accounting-tool-fix
+++ a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 			break;
 		case 'C':
 			containerset = 1;
-			containerpath = strdup(optarg);
+			containerpath = optarg;
 			break;
 		case 'w':
 			logfile = strdup(optarg);
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