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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] fbdev: fix snprintf() limit in show_bl_curve()
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:22:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1440148923.23472.15.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150821085302.GE25369@mwanda>

On Fri, 2015-08-21 at 11:53 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The limit should be "PAGE_SIZE - len" instead of PAGE_SIZE.
> 

Besides that was in the original code, the problem still might happen
when FB_BACKLIGHT_LEVELS is set to 171+ since snprintf() returns
desired length. I suppose you would change this to check len on each
iteration or change to scnprintf() if I get it correct.

 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c 
> b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c
> index 60c3f0a..827098d 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 += snprintf(&buf[len], PAGE_SIZE - len, 
> "%8ph\n",
>  				fb_info->bl_curve + i);
>  	mutex_unlock(&fb_info->bl_curve_mutex);
>  

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-21  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-21  8:53 [patch] fbdev: fix snprintf() limit in show_bl_curve() Dan Carpenter
2015-08-21  9:22 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2015-08-21  9:53 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-08-21 11:26 ` Andy Shevchenko

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