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SubjectRe: [TRIVIAL] kstrdup
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>You should save the strlen result to a temp var, and then s/strcpy/memcpy/
>>>
>>>No, you should just not do this. I don't see the point.
>>
>>strcpy has a test for each byte of its contents, and memcpy doesn't.
>>Why search 's' for NULL twice?
>
>
> No, my point is that kstrdup() _itself_ just shouldn't be done. I don't

Ah, indeed :)


> see it as being worthy of kernel support. Most of the kernel string data
> structures are NOT random zero-ended strings anyway: they are either
> strictly limited in some ways ("ends in '\0', but limited to PATH_MAX), or
> they are explicitly sized ("struct qstr").

Quite true

Jeff



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