Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda/tas2781: Add speaker id check for ASUS projects

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 09:19:19AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:31:05 +0200,
> Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 03:11:18PM +0800, Baojun Xu wrote:

...

> > > +			// Speaker id is not valid, use default.
> > > +			dev_dbg(tas_priv->dev, "Wrong spk_id = %d\n", spk_id);
> > > +			spk_id = 0;
> > > +		}
> > > +		scnprintf(tas_priv->coef_binaryname,
> > 
> > Why 'c' variant? You do not check the return value anyway. So, what's the point?
> 
> There is a difference between snprintf() and scnprintf().
> With W=1, the compiler (at least the recent gcc version) will warn you
> when the string truncation may happen in the former case while not
> complaining for the latter.
> So, when the truncation is intentional and acceptable (that's
> certainly most cases), the use of scnprintf() will result in less
> warnings.

Yes, which is a papering over the potential problem, right?
I agree that in this case it might be not critical or even
practical to check for an error, but in general the whole lot
of s*nprintf() should be used with this is in mind.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko