[openib-general] [PATCH][kdapl] Small changes in dapl_hca_all oc/dapl_hca_free functions

[Tom Duffy]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 20:00 +0300, Itamar Rabenstein wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> I was just copied to original code from dapl_os_strdup() to
> dapl_hca_alloc().
> so if it is a problem is it was there in the code before my patch.
> But why do you think we need strncpy and not strcpy ?
> name param is null terminated string.

It is generally not a good idea to allow an arbitrary sized string in
the kernel.  Especially when you are kmalloc()ing the size.

-tduffy

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