From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2] fbdev: fix snprintf() limit in show_bl_curve()
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:35:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E57F8D.6090209@ti.com> (raw)
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On 24/08/15 22:54, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The limit should be "PAGE_SIZE - len" instead of PAGE_SIZE. Also let's
> use scnprintf() because snprintf() returns the number of bytes which
> would have been printed if there were space and scnprintf() returns the
> number of bytes actually printed.
>
> I don't think we are ever going to actually hit this limit in real life.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c
> index 60c3f0a..15755ce 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c
> @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static ssize_t show_bl_curve(struct device *device,
>
> mutex_lock(&fb_info->bl_curve_mutex);
> for (i = 0; i < FB_BACKLIGHT_LEVELS; i += 8)
> - len += snprintf(&buf[len], PAGE_SIZE, "%8ph\n",
> + len += scnprintf(&buf[len], PAGE_SIZE - len, "%8ph\n",
> fb_info->bl_curve + i);
> mutex_unlock(&fb_info->bl_curve_mutex);
Thanks, queued for 4.3.
Tomi
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