[libvirt] [PATCH] Remove use of strncpy in qemudExtractMonitorPath.

Chris Lalancette clalance at redhat.com
Fri Aug 28 14:56:14 UTC 2009


qemudExtractMonitorPath() was doing a VIR_ALLOC_N followed by a
strncpy.  However, this isn't necessary; we can do the same thing
using strndup, which is much safer.

Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>
---
 src/qemu_driver.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu_driver.c
index 772f2f9..a40d386 100644
--- a/src/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu_driver.c
@@ -1029,12 +1029,12 @@ qemudExtractMonitorPath(virConnectPtr conn,
      */
     while (*tmp) {
         if (c_isspace(*tmp)) {
-            if (VIR_ALLOC_N(*path, (tmp-dev)+1) < 0) {
+            *path = strndup(dev, tmp-dev);
+            if (*path == NULL) {
                 virReportOOMError(conn);
                 return -1;
             }
-            strncpy(*path, dev, (tmp-dev));
-            (*path)[(tmp-dev)] = '\0';
+
             /* ... now further update offset till we get EOL */
             *offset = tmp - haystack;
             return 0;
-- 
1.6.0.6




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