Thread (47 messages) 47 messages, 13 authors, 2017-07-18
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[PATCH 12/22] vmxnet3: avoid format strint overflow warning

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: 2017-07-14 12:11:42
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Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest, vmware vmxnet3 ethernet driver · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, Ronak Doshi

gcc-7 notices that "-event-%d" could be more than 11 characters long
if we had larger 'vector' numbers:

drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c: In function 'vmxnet3_activate_dev':
drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c:2095:40: error: 'sprintf' may write a terminating nul past the end of the destination [-Werror=format-overflow=]
sprintf(intr->event_msi_vector_name, "%s-event-%d",
                                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c:2095:3: note: 'sprintf' output between 9 and 33 bytes into a destination of size 32

The current code is safe, but making the string a little longer
is harmless and lets gcc see that it's ok.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
 drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h
index ba1c9f93592b..9c51b8be0038 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ struct vmxnet3_intr {
 	u8  num_intrs;			/* # of intr vectors */
 	u8  event_intr_idx;		/* idx of the intr vector for event */
 	u8  mod_levels[VMXNET3_LINUX_MAX_MSIX_VECT]; /* moderation level */
-	char	event_msi_vector_name[IFNAMSIZ+11];
+	char	event_msi_vector_name[IFNAMSIZ+17];
 #ifdef CONFIG_PCI_MSI
 	struct msix_entry msix_entries[VMXNET3_LINUX_MAX_MSIX_VECT];
 #endif
-- 
2.9.0
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