4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 11a64a05dc649815670b1be9fe63d205cb076401 upstream. Depending on which functions are inlined in util/pmu.c, the snprintf() calls in perf_pmu__parse_{scale,unit,per_pkg,snapshot}() might trigger a warning: util/pmu.c: In function 'pmu_aliases': util/pmu.c:178:31: error: '%s' directive output may be truncated writing up to 255 bytes into a region of size between 0 and 4095 [-Werror=format-truncation=] snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s.unit", dir, name); ^~ I found this when trying to build perf from Linux 3.16 with gcc 8. However I can reproduce the problem in mainline if I force __perf_pmu__new_alias() to be inlined. Suppress this by using scnprintf() as has been done elsewhere in perf. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181111184524.fux4taownc6ndbx6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static int perf_pmu__parse_scale(struct char path[PATH_MAX]; char *lc; - snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s.scale", dir, name); + scnprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s.scale", dir, name); fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); if (fd == -1) @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static int perf_pmu__parse_unit(struct p ssize_t sret; int fd; - snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s.unit", dir, name); + scnprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s.unit", dir, name); fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); if (fd == -1) @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ perf_pmu__parse_per_pkg(struct perf_pmu_ char path[PATH_MAX]; int fd; - snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s.per-pkg", dir, name); + scnprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s.per-pkg", dir, name); fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); if (fd == -1) @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static int perf_pmu__parse_snapshot(stru char path[PATH_MAX]; int fd; - snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s.snapshot", dir, name); + scnprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s.snapshot", dir, name); fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); if (fd == -1)