From 8c4018884a49eb2c6c7ca90804f331b12983561c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:41:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fs: fix name overwrite in __register_chrdev_region()

It's possible to register a chrdev with a name size exactly the same as
was allocated in structure.  It seems it was not intended behaviour.

At least chrdev_show does not like it.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 fs/char_dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 700697a7261..38f71222a55 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
 	cd->major = major;
 	cd->baseminor = baseminor;
 	cd->minorct = minorct;
-	strncpy(cd->name,name, 64);
+	strlcpy(cd->name, name, sizeof(cd->name));
 
 	i = major_to_index(major);
 
-- 
2.11.4.GIT