[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] Buffer overruns in printf

Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-25T20:04:15Z

Dear Simon Glass,

In message <1316799532-20761-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> you wrote:
> The printf family of functions in U-Boot cannot deal with a situation where
> the caller provides a buffer which turns out to be too small for the format
> string. This can result in buffer overflows, stack overflows and other bad
> behavior.
>
> This patch series tidies this up in the common vsprintf.c code, and also
> some network code (as an example of where this might lead).

What's the impact of this patch set on the memory footprint of typical
configurations?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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