Re: [PATCH] lib: string_helpers: fix potential snprintf() output truncation

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 11:34 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 11:14:17AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
> > >
> > > The output of ".%03u" with the unsigned int in range [0, 4294966295] may
> > > get truncated if the target buffer is not 12 bytes.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 3c9f3681d0b4 ("[SCSI] lib: add generic helper to print sizes rounded to the correct SI range")
> > > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > >  lib/string_helpers.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman.  You have sent him
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> > to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept
> > writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was
> > created.  Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem
> > in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux
> > kernel tree.
> >
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> > greg k-h's patch email bot
> 
> Did something change? I typically don't add Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> to the fixes I send and this is the first time I'm getting this email.

The bot doesn't catch everyone.

> I can resend of course.

If you want it added to the stable trees, you MUST put the proper tags
in it.  Otherwise you are at the mercy of us sweeping the tree when we
get bored to find patches where developers/maintainers didn't tag things
properly :)

thanks,

greg k-h