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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok.  I made a few small changes and pushed it to http://repo.or.cz.
>
> Kees might like this.  It warns about stuff like:
>
>         sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c:102 snd_create_std_mono_ctl_offset()
>         warn: call of 'snprintf' with non-constant format argument
>
> It still has quite a few false positives, so you need to use the
> --spammy flag.  ~/smatch/smatch_scripts/test_kernel.sh --spammy
> We'll probably be able to cut down on some of the false positives.

Heh. Yeah, that's one gcc warns about too. I have it fixed in my
format-security tree, just to keep noise down:

-       snprintf(kctl->id.name, sizeof(kctl->id.name), name);
+       strlcpy(kctl->id.name, name, sizeof(kctl->id.name));

As it happens, all the callers are safe, but there's no reason for
snprintf there.

Is this less spammy than gcc's -Wformat-security?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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