Re: [PATCH] mm/damon/dbgfs: fix bogus string length

[SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>]

Hi Arnd,

On Fri,  2 Feb 2024 13:43:26 +0100 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> gcc correctly points out that using strnlen() on a fixed size array
> is nonsense with an overlong limit:
> 
> mm/damon/dbgfs.c: In function 'damon_dbgfs_deprecated_read':
> mm/damon/dbgfs.c:814:19: error: 'strnlen' specified bound 1024 exceeds source size 512 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
>   814 |         int len = strnlen(kbuf, 1024);
>       |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> mm/damon/dbgfs.c:813:14: note: source object allocated here
>   813 |         char kbuf[512] = DAMON_DBGFS_DEPRECATION_NOTICE;
>       |              ^~~~
> 
> In fact, neither of the arbitrary limits are needed here: The first
> one can just be a static const string and avoid wasting any more
> space then necessary, and the strnlen() can be either strlen() or
> sizeof(kbuf)-1, both of which the compiler turns into the same
> constant here.

Thank you for this fix!

> 
> Fixes: adf9047adfff ("mm/damon/dbgfs: implement deprecation notice file")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>


Thanks,
SJ

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