Re: [PATCH] elevator: fix truncation of icq_cache_name

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On 06/02/2017 09:35 PM, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> gcc 7.1 reports the following warning:
> 
>     block/elevator.c: In function ‘elv_register’:
>     block/elevator.c:898:5: warning: ‘snprintf’ output may be truncated before the last format character [-Wformat-truncation=]
>          "%s_io_cq", e->elevator_name);
>          ^~~~~~~~~~
>     block/elevator.c:897:3: note: ‘snprintf’ output between 7 and 22 bytes into a destination of size 21
>        snprintf(e->icq_cache_name, sizeof(e->icq_cache_name),
>        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>          "%s_io_cq", e->elevator_name);
>          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> The bug is that the name of the icq_cache is 6 characters longer than
> the elevator name, but only ELV_NAME_MAX + 5 characters were reserved
> for it --- so in the case of a maximum-length elevator name, the 'q'
> character in "_io_cq" would be truncated by snprintf().  Fix it by
> reserving ELV_NAME_MAX + 6 characters instead.

Added, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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