On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 14/07/17 14:07, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> gcc-7 notices that we copy a fixed length string into another
>> string of the same size, with additional characters:
>>
>> drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c: In function 'usbvision_i2c_register':
>> drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c:190:36: error: '%d' directive writing between 1 and 11 bytes into a region of size between 0 and 47 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
>> sprintf(usbvision->i2c_adap.name, "%s-%d-%s", i2c_adap_template.name,
>> ^~~~~~~~~~
>> drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c:190:2: note: 'sprintf' output between 4 and 76 bytes into a destination of size 48
>>
>> We know this is fine as the template name is always "usbvision", so
>> we can easily avoid the warning by using this as the format string
>> directly.
>
> Hmm, how about replacing sprintf by snprintf? That feels a lot safer (this is very
> old code, it's not surprising it is still using sprintf).
With snprintf(), you will still get a -Wformat-truncation warning. One
of my patches
disables that warning by default, but Mauro likes build-testing with
"make W=1", so
it would still show up then.
However, we can do both: replace the string and use snprintf().
Arnd
