Hello Bradley Grove, The patch 17adeb6dabbe: "[SCSI] esas2r: ATTO Technology ExpressSAS 6G SAS/SATA RAID Adapter Driver" from Aug 23, 2013, leads to the following Smatch warning: "drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_vda.c:312 esas2r_complete_vda_ioctl() error: format string overflow. buf_size: 4 length: 5" drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_vda.c 312 sprintf((char *)&cfg->data.init.fw_release, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is a u32 but we are writing 4 characters and a NUL so it ends up putting the NUL in cfg->data.init.epoch_time. 313 "%1d.%02d", 314 (int)LOBYTE(le16_to_cpu(rsp->fw_release)), 315 (int)HIBYTE(le16_to_cpu(rsp->fw_release))); regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html