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From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
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Date:   Wed, 24 Jul 2019 03:43:22 -0700
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On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 10:28 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Joe Perches
> > Sent: 24 July 2019 05:38
> > On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 23:27 -0500, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 22:54 -0500, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > > A seantic patch and the resulting output for the case where the third
> > > > > arugument is a constant is attached.  Likewise the resulting output on a
> > > > > recent linux-next.
[]
> > > > There is a problem with conversions with assignments
> > > > of strlcpy() so ideally the cocci script should make sure
> > > > any return value was not used before conversion.
> > > > 
> > > > This is not a provably good conversion:
> > > > 
> > > > drivers/s390/char/sclp_ftp.c
> > > > @@ -114,8 +114,7 @@ static int sclp_ftp_et7(const struct hmc
> > > >         sccb->evbuf.mdd.ftp.length = ftp->len;
> > > >         sccb->evbuf.mdd.ftp.bufaddr = virt_to_phys(ftp->buf);
> > > > 
> > > > -       len = strlcpy(sccb->evbuf.mdd.ftp.fident, ftp->fname,
> > > > -                     HMCDRV_FTP_FIDENT_MAX);
> > > > +       len = stracpy(sccb->evbuf.mdd.ftp.fident, ftp->fname);
[]
> > Any use of the strlcpy return value should not be converted
> > because the logic after an assignment or use of the return value
> > can not be assured to have the same behavior.
> 
> Most of the code probably expects the length to be that copied
> (so is broken if the string is truncated).

Fortunately there are relatively few uses of the return
value of strlcpy so it's not a large problem set.

Slightly unrepresentative counts:

$ git grep -P "^\s+strlcpy\b" | wc -l
1681
$ git grep -P "=\s*strlcpy\b" | wc -l
28