The patch titled Subject: x86: intel-mid: fix a format string overflow warning has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is x86-intel-mid-fix-a-format-string-overflow-warning.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/x86-intel-mid-fix-a-format-string-overflow-warning.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/x86-intel-mid-fix-a-format-string-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: x86: intel-mid: fix a format string overflow warning We have space for exactly one character for the index in "max7315_%d_base", but as gcc points out having more would cause an string overflow: arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c: In function 'max7315_platform_data': arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c:41:26: error: '%d' directive writing between 1 and 11 bytes into a region of size 9 [-Werror=format-overflow=] sprintf(base_pin_name, "max7315_%d_base", nr); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c:41:26: note: directive argument in the range [-2147483647, 2147483647] arm-soc/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c:41:3: note: 'sprintf' output between 15 and 25 bytes into a destination of size 17 sprintf(base_pin_name, "max7315_%d_base", nr); This makes it use an snprintf() to truncate the string if that happened rather than overflowing the stack. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170714120720.906842-17-arnd@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c~x86-intel-mid-fix-a-format-string-overflow-warning arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c --- a/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c~x86-intel-mid-fix-a-format-string-overflow-warning +++ a/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c @@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ static void __init *max7315_platform_dat */ strcpy(i2c_info->type, "max7315"); if (nr++) { - sprintf(base_pin_name, "max7315_%d_base", nr); - sprintf(intr_pin_name, "max7315_%d_int", nr); + snprintf(base_pin_name, sizeof(base_pin_name), + "max7315_%d_base", nr); + snprintf(intr_pin_name, sizeof(intr_pin_name), + "max7315_%d_int", nr); } else { strcpy(base_pin_name, "max7315_base"); strcpy(intr_pin_name, "max7315_int"); _ 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