The kctl->id.name can be directly passed to snd_usb_copy_string_desc() and if the string has been fetched the suffix can be appended with the append_ctl_name() call. The temporary name string becomes redundant and can be removed. This change will also fixes the following compiler warning/error (W=1): sound/usb/mixer.c: In function ‘parse_audio_unit’: sound/usb/mixer.c:1972:29: error: ‘ Validity’ directive output may be truncated writing 9 bytes into a region of size between 1 and 44 [-Werror=format-truncation=] 1972 | "%s Validity", name); | ^~~~~~~~~ In function ‘parse_clock_source_unit’, inlined from ‘parse_audio_unit’ at sound/usb/mixer.c:2892:10: sound/usb/mixer.c:1971:17: note: ‘snprintf’ output between 10 and 53 bytes into a destination of size 44 1971 | snprintf(kctl->id.name, sizeof(kctl->id.name), | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1972 | "%s Validity", name); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors The warnings got brought to light by a recent patch upstream: commit 6d4ab2e97dcf ("extrawarn: enable format and stringop overflow warnings in W=1") Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/usb/mixer.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/usb/mixer.c b/sound/usb/mixer.c index 9105ec623120..985b1aea9cdc 100644 --- a/sound/usb/mixer.c +++ b/sound/usb/mixer.c @@ -1929,7 +1929,6 @@ static int parse_clock_source_unit(struct mixer_build *state, int unitid, struct uac_clock_source_descriptor *hdr = _ftr; struct usb_mixer_elem_info *cval; struct snd_kcontrol *kctl; - char name[SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_ID_NAME_MAXLEN]; int ret; if (state->mixer->protocol != UAC_VERSION_2) @@ -1966,10 +1965,9 @@ static int parse_clock_source_unit(struct mixer_build *state, int unitid, kctl->private_free = snd_usb_mixer_elem_free; ret = snd_usb_copy_string_desc(state->chip, hdr->iClockSource, - name, sizeof(name)); + kctl->id.name, sizeof(kctl->id.name)); if (ret > 0) - snprintf(kctl->id.name, sizeof(kctl->id.name), - "%s Validity", name); + append_ctl_name(kctl, " Validity"); else snprintf(kctl->id.name, sizeof(kctl->id.name), "Clock Source %d Validity", hdr->bClockID); -- 2.42.0