The patch titled Subject: scsi: mpt3sas: fix format overflow warning has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is scsi-mpt3sas-fix-format-overflow-warning.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/scsi-mpt3sas-fix-format-overflow-warning.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/scsi-mpt3sas-fix-format-overflow-warning.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Subject: scsi: mpt3sas: fix format overflow warning We print the driver name into one string and then add and ID and copy it into a second string of the same length, at which point gcc complains about a possible overflow: drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c: In function '_scsih_probe': drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c:8884:21: error: '_cm' directive writing 3 bytes into a region of size between 1 and 32 [-Werror=format-overflow=] printf(ioc->name, "%s_cm%d", ioc->driver_name, ioc->id); ^~~~~~~~~ drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c:8884:21: note: directive argument in the range [0, 255] drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c:8884:2: note: 'sprintf' output between 5 and 38 bytes into a destination of size 32 sprintf(ioc->name, "%s_cm%d", ioc->driver_name, ioc->id); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Making the first string shorter is sufficient to avoid the warning here, as we know it can only contain either "mpt2sas" or "mpt3sas". Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170714120720.906842-4-arnd@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h~scsi-mpt3sas-fix-format-overflow-warning drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h~scsi-mpt3sas-fix-format-overflow-warning +++ a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h @@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER { u8 id; int cpu_count; char name[MPT_NAME_LENGTH]; - char driver_name[MPT_NAME_LENGTH]; + char driver_name[MPT_NAME_LENGTH - 8]; char tmp_string[MPT_STRING_LENGTH]; struct pci_dev *pdev; Mpi2SystemInterfaceRegs_t __iomem *chip; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are kbuild-disable-wformat-truncation-warnings-by-default.patch scsi-megaraid-fix-format-overflow-warning.patch scsi-mpt3sas-fix-format-overflow-warning.patch scsi-fusion-fix-string-overflow-warning.patch scsi-gdth-avoid-buffer-overflow-warning.patch scsi-fnic-fix-format-string-overflow-warning.patch scsi-gdth-increase-the-procfs-event-buffer-size.patch usbvision-i2c-fix-format-overflow-warning.patch hwmon-applesmc-fix-format-string-overflow.patch x86-intel-mid-fix-a-format-string-overflow-warning.patch platform-x86-alienware-wmi-fix-format-string-overflow-warning.patch block-dac960-shut-up-format-overflow-warning.patch fscache-fix-fscache_objlist_show-format-processing.patch ib-mlx4-fix-sprintf-format-warning.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html