Re: SECURITY - data leakage due to incorrect strncpy implementation

[Linus Torvalds]

On 11 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Lots of kernel drivers rely on the libc definition of strncpy. 

But that's ok. We _do_ do the padding. I hated it when I wrote it, but as 
far as I know, the kernel strncpy() has done padding pretty much since day 
one.

Yes, strlcpy() conversion users need to be careful, but I think we mostly 
_were_ careful. Knock wood.

		Linus