kern/141682: [libc] [patch] Faster version of strncpy(3)

[Jaakko Heinonen]

The following reply was made to PR kern/141682; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh at FreeBSD.org>
To: Maxim Zakharov <maxime at maxime.net.ru>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/141682: [libc] [patch] Faster version of strncpy(3)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:12:29 +0200

 Hi,
 
 On 2009-12-17, Maxim Zakharov wrote:
 >  void * dps_strncpy(char *dst0, char *src0, size_t length) {
 >    if (length) {
 >      register size_t n = (length + 7) / 8;
 
 This won't work with length values larger than SIZE_MAX - 7 due to
 integer overflow.
 
 -- 
 Jaakko