From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] usb: Add checks for snprintf() calls in usb_alloc_dev()
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 09:54:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aASaIR3e3cDxU4NP@surfacebook.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2025042041-uninstall-expansive-04c3@gregkh>
Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 08:27:59AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman kirjoitti:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 07:27:08PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 06:49:49PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > When creating a device path in the driver the snprintf() takes
> > > up to 16 characters long argument along with the additional up to
> > > 12 characters for the signed integer (as it can't see the actual limits)
> > > and tries to pack this into 16 bytes array. GCC complains about that
> > > when build with `make W=1`:
> > >
> > > drivers/usb/core/usb.c:705:25: note: ‘snprintf’ output between 3 and 28 bytes into a destination of size 16
> > >
> > > Since everything works until now, let's just check for the potential
> > > buffer overflow and bail out. It is most likely a never happen situation,
> > > but at least it makes GCC happy.
> >
> > Any comments anybody?
>
> It's been added to my tree last week,
Thank you!
> why comment again?
Ah, I missed that, too many emails lately. :-(
> confused,
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-20 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-21 16:49 [PATCH v1 1/1] usb: Add checks for snprintf() calls in usb_alloc_dev() Andy Shevchenko
2025-04-19 16:27 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-04-19 18:23 ` Alan Stern
2025-04-20 6:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-04-20 6:54 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
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