Re: [PATCH 7/8] MIPS: malta-init: bound default console command-line append

[Sergey Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@gmail.com>]

On 4/4/26 5:06 PM, Pengpeng Hou wrote:

> console_config() appends a synthesized console= option to fw_getcmdline()
> with unchecked strcat() when the firmware command line does not already
> provide one. If the existing command line is near full, that append can
> overflow the fixed command-line buffer.
> 
> Switch the default console append to bounded concatenation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
> ---
>  arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-init.c | 13 +++++++------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-init.c b/arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-init.c
> index 82b0fd8576a2..fb782b1a3f6e 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-init.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-init.c
> @@ -78,13 +78,14 @@ static void __init console_config(void)
>  		setup_earlycon(console_string);
>  	}
>  
> -	if ((strstr(fw_getcmdline(), "console=")) == NULL) {
> -		sprintf(console_string, " console=ttyS0,%d%c%c%c", baud,
> -			parity, bits, flow);
> -		strcat(fw_getcmdline(), console_string);
> -		pr_info("Config serial console:%s\n", console_string);
> +	if ((strstr(fw_getcmdline(), "console=")) == NULL) {
> +		sprintf(console_string, " console=ttyS0,%d%c%c%c", baud,
> +			parity, bits, flow);

   I don't quit understand what changed in the above 3 lines...

> +		strlcat(fw_getcmdline(), console_string,
> +			COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
> +		pr_info("Config serial console:%s\n", console_string);
> +	}
>  	}
> -}

   Huh? :-)

>  #endif

MBR, Sergey