From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vsprintf.c cleanups
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:28:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <421F19E4.10600@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502250059.j1P0xbDU006504@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
Horst von Brand wrote:
> Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> said:
>
>>- Make sprintf call vsnprintf directly
>>- use INT_MAX for sprintf and vsprintf
>
>
> This is the size limit on what is written. 4GiB sounds a bit extreme...
Sprintf has no limit, which is why it's generally bad to use it. I just
replaced an open coded ((~0U)>>1) value with the equivalent INT_MAX.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-25 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-24 23:16 [PATCH] vsprintf.c cleanups Brian Gerst
2005-02-25 0:59 ` Horst von Brand
2005-02-25 12:28 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2005-02-25 12:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-25 13:37 ` Horst von Brand
2005-02-27 8:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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