The patch titled Subject: scsi: gdth: increase the procfs event buffer size has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is scsi-gdth-increase-the-procfs-event-buffer-size.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/scsi-gdth-increase-the-procfs-event-buffer-size.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/scsi-gdth-increase-the-procfs-event-buffer-size.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: gdth: increase the procfs event buffer size We print a 256 byte event string into a buffer that is only 161 bytes long, this is clearly wrong: drivers/scsi/gdth_proc.c: In function 'gdth_show_info': drivers/scsi/gdth.c:3660:41: error: '%s' directive writing up to 255 bytes into a region of size between 141 and 150 [-Werror=format-overflow=] sprintf(buffer,"Adapter %d: %s\n", ^~ /git/arm-soc/drivers/scsi/gdth.c:3660:13: note: 'sprintf' output between 13 and 277 bytes into a destination of size 161 sprintf(buffer,"Adapter %d: %s\n", ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ dvr->eu.async.ionode,dvr->event_string); ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ gcc calculates that the worst case buffer size would be 277 bytes, so we can use that. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170714120720.906842-8-arnd@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/gdth_proc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/scsi/gdth_proc.c~scsi-gdth-increase-the-procfs-event-buffer-size drivers/scsi/gdth_proc.c --- a/drivers/scsi/gdth_proc.c~scsi-gdth-increase-the-procfs-event-buffer-size +++ a/drivers/scsi/gdth_proc.c @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ int gdth_show_info(struct seq_file *m, s gdth_cmd_str *gdtcmd; gdth_evt_str *estr; - char hrec[161]; + char hrec[277]; char *buf; gdth_dskstat_str *pds; _ 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