Re: [PATCH] iommu/vt-d: replace snprintf with scnprintf in dmar_latency_snapshot()

[Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 09:11:17AM -0400, Seyediman Seyedarab wrote:
> snprintf returns the number of bytes that would have been written,
> not the number actually written to the buffer. When accumulating
> the byte count with the return value of snprintf, this can cause
> the offset to exceed the actual buffer size if truncation occurs.
> 
> The byte count is passed to seq_puts() in latency_show_one() with-
> out checking for truncation.
> 
> Replace snprintf with scnprintf, ensuring the buffer offset stays
> within bound.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Seyediman Seyedarab <ImanDevel@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/intel/perf.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/perf.c b/drivers/iommu/intel/perf.c
> index adc4de6bb..cee4821f4 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/intel/perf.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/perf.c
> @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ int dmar_latency_snapshot(struct intel_iommu *iommu, char *str, size_t size)
>  	memset(str, 0, size);
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < COUNTS_NUM; i++)
> -		bytes += snprintf(str + bytes, size - bytes,
> +		bytes += scnprintf(str + bytes, size - bytes,
>  				  "%s", latency_counter_names[i]);
>  
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&latency_lock, flags);
> @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ int dmar_latency_snapshot(struct intel_iommu *iommu, char *str, size_t size)
>  		if (!dmar_latency_enabled(iommu, i))
>  			continue;
>  
> -		bytes += snprintf(str + bytes, size - bytes,
> +		bytes += scnprintf(str + bytes, size - bytes,
>  				  "\n%s", latency_type_names[i]);
>  
>  		for (j = 0; j < COUNTS_NUM; j++) {
> @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ int dmar_latency_snapshot(struct intel_iommu *iommu, char *str, size_t size)
>  				break;
>  			}
>  
> -			bytes += snprintf(str + bytes, size - bytes,
> +			bytes += scnprintf(str + bytes, size - bytes,
>  					  "%12lld", val);

Should the check of the return value in latency_show_one() also be
adjusted so that 'ret <= 0' is an error? I couldn't convince myself
that the string in 'debug_buf' is always null-terminated if ret == 0.

Will