Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] genirq: Bump the size of the local variable for sprintf()

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>]

On 15. 05. 25, 10:55, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> GCC is not happy about sprintf() call on a buffer that might be too small for
> the given formatting string.
> 
> kernel/irq/debugfs.c:233:26: warning: 'sprintf' may write a terminating nul past the end of the destination [-Wformat-overflow=]
> 
> Fix this by bumping the size of the local variable for sprintf().
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202505151057.xbyXAbEn-lkp@intel.com/
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>   kernel/irq/debugfs.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/irq/debugfs.c b/kernel/irq/debugfs.c
> index 3d6a5b3cfaf3..3527defd2890 100644
> --- a/kernel/irq/debugfs.c
> +++ b/kernel/irq/debugfs.c
> @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ void irq_debugfs_copy_devname(int irq, struct device *dev)
>   
>   void irq_add_debugfs_entry(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc)
>   {
> -	char name [10];
> +	char name [12];

The max irq is ~ 512000, if I am counting correctly, so 7 B should be 
actually enough for everybody ;).

But well, can we silence the warning in a better way? I doubt that...

>   
>   	if (!irq_dir || !desc || desc->debugfs_file)
>   		return;

-- 
js
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