After [1] we got failure on attempt to copy empty string. Before the patch empty string was copied successfuly. Restore the original behaviour. [1] 7d70a63b util: Improve virStrncpy() implementation Signed-off-by: Nikolay Shirokovskiy <nshirokovskiy(a)virtuozzo.com&gt; --- src/util/virstring.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/util/virstring.c b/src/util/virstring.c index 2064944b0b..a4cc7e9c0a 100644 --- a/src/util/virstring.c +++ b/src/util/virstring.c @@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ virStrncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n, size_t destbytes) if (n == -1) n = src_len; - if (n <= 0 || n > src_len || n > (destbytes - 1)) + if (n > src_len || n > (destbytes - 1)) return -1; memcpy(dest, src, n); -- 2.23.0