AW: [PATCH] tools: net: traceevent: Fix 'snprintf' return value check in 'tep_filter_strerror'

[Walter Harms <wharms@xxxxxx>]

i guess the whole thing can be made more simple 

we have len and buflen

len=strlen(filter->error_buffer);
if (len >= buflen )
  return -1;

strcpy(buf, filter->error_buffer);

jm2c,


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Von: Fedor Tokarev [ftokarev@xxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2020 16:30
An: rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx; acme@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ftokarev@xxxxxxxxx
Betreff: [PATCH] tools: net: traceevent: Fix 'snprintf' return value check in 'tep_filter_strerror'

'snprintf' returns the number of characters which would have been written
if enough space had been available, excluding the terminating null byte.
Thus, the return value of 'buflen' means that the last character
was dropped.

Signed-off-by: Fedor Tokarev <ftokarev@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c
index c271aee..dccdbf2 100644
--- a/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c
+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ int tep_filter_strerror(struct tep_event_filter *filter, enum tep_errno err,
        if (strlen(filter->error_buffer) > 0) {
                size_t len = snprintf(buf, buflen, "%s", filter->error_buffer);

-               if (len > buflen)
+               if (len >= buflen)
                        return -1;
                return 0;
        }
--
2.7.4