From b33d0943b18b04ed3f1887b6704f11cb86eedb83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:24:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix strncpy off-by-one error

From: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>

It writes one too many zeroes when nulling out the destination.
---
 lib/string.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib/string.c')

diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index d50185536bf3..05dfb7ff5fd9 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ char * strncpy(char * dest,const char *src,size_t count)
 
 	while (count && (*dest++ = *src++) != '\0')
 		count--;
-	while (count) {
+	while (count > 1) {
 		*dest++ = 0;
 		count--;
 	}
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