[PATCH] nis: Fix stringop-truncation warning with -O3 in nis_local_host.

Stefan Liebler stli@linux.ibm.com
Thu Mar 2 13:26:42 GMT 2023


On 02.03.23 11:12, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
>> We can just ignore this warning as the hostname + '.' + directory-name + '\0' always fits
>> in __nishostname with length of (NIS_MAXNAMELEN + 1) as there is the runtime check above.
>> Furthermore as we already know the length of the directory-name, we can also just use
>> memcpy to copy the directory-name inclusive the NUL-termination.
> 
> Agreed, that is a much more natural way of doing it.
> 
>> Note: This werror was introduced with commit
>> 32c7acd46401530fdbd4e98508c9baaa705f8b53
>> "Replace rawmemchr (s, '\0') with strchr"
> 
> The compiler now uses strlen and so it can do more optimization, including
> giving warnings.
> 
> LGTM
> 
> Reviewed-by: Wilco Dijkstra  <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
> 
> Cheers,
> Wilco
> 
> @@ -161,15 +161,19 @@ nis_local_host (void)
>  	  if (cp[-1] == '.')
>  	    return __nishostname;
>  
> -	  if (len + strlen (nis_local_directory ()) + 1 > NIS_MAXNAMELEN)
> +	  nis_name local_directory = nis_local_directory ();
> +	  size_t local_directory_len = strlen (local_directory);
> +	  if (len + 1 + local_directory_len > NIS_MAXNAMELEN)
> 
> OK
>  	    {
>  	      __nishostname[0] = '\0';
>  	      return __nishostname;
>  	    }
>  
> +	  /* We have enough space in __nishostname with length of
> +	     (NIS_MAXNAMELEN + 1) for
> +	     hostname + '.' + directory-name + '\0'.  */
>  	  *cp++ = '.';
> -	  strncpy (cp, nis_local_directory (), NIS_MAXNAMELEN - len -1);
> -	  __nishostname[NIS_MAXNAMELEN] = '\0';
> +	  memcpy (cp, local_directory, local_directory_len + 1);
>  
> OK

I've just committed the patch.

Thanks,
Stefan


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