Commit 96b02d78 authored by Márton Németh's avatar Márton Németh Committed by Ingo Molnar

perf_event: Remove redundant zero fill

The buffer is first zeroed out by memset(). Then strncpy() is
used to fill the content. The strncpy() function also pads the
string till the end of the specified length, which is redundant.
The strncpy() does not ensures that the string will be properly
closed with 0. Use strlcpy() instead.

The semantic match that finds this kind of pattern is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression buffer;
expression size;
expression str;
@@
	memset(buffer, 0, size);
	...
-	strncpy(
+	strlcpy(
	buffer, str, sizeof(buffer)
	);
@@
expression buffer;
expression size;
expression str;
@@
	memset(&buffer, 0, size);
	...
-	strncpy(
+	strlcpy(
	&buffer, str, sizeof(buffer));
@@
expression buffer;
identifier field;
expression size;
expression str;
@@
	memset(buffer, 0, size);
	...
-	strncpy(
+	strlcpy(
	buffer->field, str, sizeof(buffer->field)
	);
@@
expression buffer;
identifier field;
expression size;
expression str;
@@
	memset(&buffer, 0, size);
	...
-	strncpy(
+	strlcpy(
	buffer.field, str, sizeof(buffer.field));
// </smpl>

On strncpy() vs strlcpy() see
http://www.gratisoft.us/todd/papers/strlcpy.html .
Signed-off-by: default avatarMárton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: cocci@diku.dk
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B086547.5040100@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 5093ebad
......@@ -3391,7 +3391,7 @@ static void perf_event_comm_event(struct perf_comm_event *comm_event)
char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
memset(comm, 0, sizeof(comm));
strncpy(comm, comm_event->task->comm, sizeof(comm));
strlcpy(comm, comm_event->task->comm, sizeof(comm));
size = ALIGN(strlen(comm)+1, sizeof(u64));
comm_event->comm = comm;
......
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