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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>
Cc: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@hotmail.com>,
	przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
	anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	jacob.e.keller@intel.com, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] igb: Add null pointer check to igb_set_fw_version
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:26:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231212132637.1b0fb8aa@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231211031336.235634-1-chentao@kylinos.cn>

On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:13:36 +0800 Kunwu Chan wrote:
> kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory
> which can be NULL upon failure.
> 
> Fixes: 1978d3ead82c ("intel: fix string truncation warnings")
> Cc: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@hotmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>

The allocation is rather pointless here.
Can you convert this code to use snprintf() instead?
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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>
Cc: jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
	jacob.e.keller@intel.com, przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com,
	intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igb: Add null pointer check to igb_set_fw_version
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:26:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231212132637.1b0fb8aa@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231211031336.235634-1-chentao@kylinos.cn>

On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:13:36 +0800 Kunwu Chan wrote:
> kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory
> which can be NULL upon failure.
> 
> Fixes: 1978d3ead82c ("intel: fix string truncation warnings")
> Cc: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@hotmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>

The allocation is rather pointless here.
Can you convert this code to use snprintf() instead?
-- 
pw-bot: cr

  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-12 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-11  3:13 [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] igb: Add null pointer check to igb_set_fw_version Kunwu Chan
2023-12-11  3:13 ` Kunwu Chan
2023-12-12 21:26 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-12-12 21:26   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-14  2:44   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Kunwu Chan
2023-12-14  2:44     ` Kunwu Chan

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