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| -rw-r--r-- | source3/lib/util_str.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/source3/lib/util_str.c b/source3/lib/util_str.c index d4291082da..2beb67d825 100644 --- a/source3/lib/util_str.c +++ b/source3/lib/util_str.c @@ -443,7 +443,11 @@ char *safe_strcpy(char *dest,const char *src, size_t maxlength) } #ifdef DEVELOPER - dest[maxlength]='\0'; + /* We intentionally write out at the extremity of the destination + * string. If the destination is too short (e.g. pstrcpy into mallocd + * or fstring) then this should cause an error under a memory + * checker. */ + dest[maxlength] = '\0'; #endif if (!src) { |