From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 09:47:35 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch v2] virtio_console: silence a static checker warning Message-Id: <20150508094735.GD16501@mwanda> List-Id: References: <20150508091624.GS14154@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20150508091624.GS14154@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 11:30:09AM +0200, walter harms wrote: > > > Am 08.05.2015 11:16, schrieb Dan Carpenter: > > My static checker complains that this sprintf() can overflow but really > > it can't. Just silence the warning by using snprintf(). > > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter > > --- > > v2: the overflow is not possible so just leave the buffer size alone and > > silence the warning with snprintf(). > > > > diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c > > index 50754d20..8283989 100644 > > --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c > > +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c > > @@ -1492,8 +1492,8 @@ static int add_port(struct ports_device *portdev, u32 id) > > * Finally, create the debugfs file that we can use to > > * inspect a port's state at any time > > */ > > - sprintf(debugfs_name, "vport%up%u", > > - port->portdev->vdev->index, id); > > + snprintf(debugfs_name, sizeof(debugfs_name), "vport%up%u", > > + port->portdev->vdev->index, id); > > > would it help to use %03u (or so) to make it more obvious ? > > Note: i prefer a leading 0 in my programms to make it more easy > to work with grep and friends. you may thing otherwise. That's an user API change so it's probably a bad idea. regards, dan carpenter