Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754705AbdGNQER (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:04:17 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:36940 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754659AbdGNQEP (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:04:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20170714.090403.1626657578346063371.davem@davemloft.net> To: arnd@arndb.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, skhare@vmware.com, pv-drivers@vmware.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux@roeck-us.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/22] vmxnet3: avoid format strint overflow warning From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20170714120720.906842-13-arnd@arndb.de> References: <20170714120720.906842-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20170714120720.906842-13-arnd@arndb.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 25.2 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:04:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 809 Lines: 18 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:07:04 +0200 > 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 Applied.