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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 11:44:41 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, cpuinfo x86_model_id whitespace cleanup
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On May 19, 2015 11:13 AM, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:25:59PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > Using strlcpy in this manner could fail if it does larger than byte
> > copies and they overlap.
>
> Why?
>
> AFAICT, strlcpy() calls memcpy() and memcpy should handle overlapping
> buffers just fine.

Are you thinking of memmove?

--Andy
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