From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:44:47 +0000 Subject: [patch] i915: snprintf returns large values Message-Id: <20100908194447.GC3463@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Airlie Cc: Daniel Vetter , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org snprintf() returns the number of bytes which would have been used if there was enough space. It can be larger than the size of the buffer. Obviously in this case the buffer is large enough but everyone just copy and pastes this code so it's better to limit it and set a good example. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c index 5e43d70..1cb29ec 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c @@ -741,6 +741,9 @@ i915_wedged_read(struct file *filp, "wedged : %d\n", atomic_read(&dev_priv->mm.wedged)); + if (len > sizeof (buf)) + len = sizeof (buf); + return simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, max, ppos, buf, len); }