On 11/27/2012 08:31 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Smatch complains that snprintf() returns the number of characters,
> not counting the NUL terminator, which *would* have been printed if
> there were enough space. In other words the return value could be more
> than sizeof(buf).
>
> In this case, we are printing something like "ff.ff\n" which is at most
> 6 characters and a NUL so that's not an issue. I changed snprintf() to
> scnprintf() to silence the warning.
>
> But since the buffer doesn't include space for the NUL terminator, we
> need to make it bigger or the "\n" will be truncated off.
>
Thanks,
Acked-By: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/imu/adis16480.c b/drivers/iio/imu/adis16480.c
> index a080b35..150d7fa 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/imu/adis16480.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/imu/adis16480.c
> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static ssize_t adis16480_show_firmware_revision(struct file *file,
> char __user *userbuf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
> {
> struct adis16480 *adis16480 = file->private_data;
> - char buf[6];
> + char buf[7];
> size_t len;
> u16 rev;
> int ret;
> @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static ssize_t adis16480_show_firmware_revision(struct file *file,
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
>
> - len = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%x.%x\n", rev >> 8, rev & 0xff);
> + len = scnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%x.%x\n", rev >> 8, rev & 0xff);
>
> return simple_read_from_buffer(userbuf, count, ppos, buf, len);
> }
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