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

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>]

On 21. 10. 24, 12:04, 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.

Perhaps, if you elaborate on how 'remainder' can become > 999?

> Fixes: 3c9f3681d0b4 ("[SCSI] lib: add generic helper to print sizes rounded to the correct SI range")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
> ---
>   lib/string_helpers.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
> index 4f887aa62fa0..91fa37b5c510 100644
> --- a/lib/string_helpers.c
> +++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ int string_get_size(u64 size, u64 blk_size, const enum string_size_units units,
>   	static const unsigned int rounding[] = { 500, 50, 5 };
>   	int i = 0, j;
>   	u32 remainder = 0, sf_cap;
> -	char tmp[8];
> +	char tmp[12];
>   	const char *unit;
>   
>   	tmp[0] = '\0';

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