FwupdPlugin.memcpy_safe
Description: Reference for FwupdPlugin.memcpy_safe

### Function

# FwupdPluginmemcpy_safe

#### Declaration [src]

    gboolean
    fu_memcpy_safe (
      guint8* dst,
      gsize dst_sz,
      gsize dst_offset,
      const guint8* src,
      gsize src_sz,
      gsize src_offset,
      gsize n,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description [src]

Copies some memory using memcpy in a safe way. Providing the buffer sizes of both the destination and the source allows us to check for buffer overflow.

Providing the buffer offsets also allows us to check reading past the end of the source buffer. For this reason the caller should NEVER add an offset to `src` or `dst`.

You don’t need to use this function in “obviously correct” cases, nor should you use it when performance is a concern. Only us it when you’re not sure if malicious data from a device or firmware could cause memory corruption.

Available since: | 1.8.2

#### Parameters

`dst` | `guint8*`
| Destination buffer.
| The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`dst_sz` | `gsize`
| Maximum size of `dst`, typically `sizeof(dst)`
`dst_offset` | `gsize`
| Offset in bytes into `dst` to copy to.
`src` | `const guint8*`
| Source buffer.
| The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`src_sz` | `gsize`
| Maximum size of `dst`, typically `sizeof(src)`
`src_offset` | `gsize`
| Offset in bytes into `src` to copy from.
`n` | `gsize`
| Number of bytes to copy from `src`+`offset` from.
`error` | `GError **`
| The return location for a `GError*`, or `NULL`.

#### Return value

Returns: | `gboolean`
| `TRUE` if the bytes were copied, `FALSE` otherwise.