From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: Baran Tuna <barant@fastmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"open list:QLOGIC QL4xxx ETHERNET DRIVER"
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qede: Prevent possible snprintf() truncation by bounding %s string format
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 08:27:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <akUw_GsNELK4NKTN@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260701144713.197557-1-barant@fastmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 01, 2026 at 05:47:11PM +0300, Baran Tuna wrote:
> GCC warning shows that formatted strings may
> exceed the fixed-size destination buffers.
>
> Bounding the %s string format
> so the maximum formatted output always fits.
>
> This eliminates the -Wformat-truncation warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baran Tuna <barant@fastmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_ethtool.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_ethtool.c
> index 647f30a16a94..5428f53150a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_ethtool.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_ethtool.c
> @@ -618,10 +618,10 @@ static void qede_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *ndev,
> if ((strlen(storm) + strlen("[storm]")) <
> sizeof(info->version))
> snprintf(info->version, sizeof(info->version),
> - "[storm %s]", storm);
> + "[storm %.16s]", storm);
Where is this 16 coming from?
Also, isn't the if above checking for no overflow? I.e,
we got here only if strlen(storm) + strlen("[storm]") < sizeof(info->version))
For whoever else is reviwewing this, this the buffers:
#define ETHTOOL_FWVERS_LEN 32
char version[32];
char storm[ETHTOOL_FWVERS_LEN];
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-01 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-01 14:47 [PATCH] qede: Prevent possible snprintf() truncation by bounding %s string format Baran Tuna
2026-07-01 15:27 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2026-07-01 16:23 ` Baran TUna
2026-07-01 19:33 ` David Laight
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