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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] miiphy: use strcpy() not sprintf()
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:49:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1EF3E3.8090600@aribaud.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310646667-2426-1-git-send-email-lwithers@guralp.com>

Hi Laurence,

Le 14/07/2011 14:31, Laurence Withers a ?crit :
> In miiphy_register() the new device's name was initialised by passing a
> string parameter as the format string to sprintf(). As this would cause
> problems if it ever contained a '%' symbol, switch to using strcpy()
> instead.

Please use strncpy() which will also guard against overflows.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-14 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-14 12:31 [U-Boot] [PATCH] miiphy: use strcpy() not sprintf() Laurence Withers
2011-07-14 13:49 ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2011-07-14 18:02   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-07-15  9:21     ` Laurence Withers

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