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Date:   Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:58:10 -0800
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc:     Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] objtool: check: give big enough buffer for pv_ops
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 09:53:07AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 07:57:56AM +0000, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> > On gcc-12 build fails flagging possible buffer overflow:
> > 
> >     check.c: In function 'validate_call':
> >     check.c:2865:58: error: '%d' directive output may be truncated writing between 1 and 10 bytes into a region of size 9 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
> >      2865 |                 snprintf(pvname, sizeof(pvname), "pv_ops[%d]", idx);
> >           |                                                          ^~
> > 
> > I think it's a valid warning:
> > 
> >     static char pvname[16];
> >     int idx;
> >     ...
> >     idx = (rel->addend / sizeof(void *));
> >     snprintf(pvname, sizeof(pvname), "pv_ops[%d]", idx);
> > 
> > we have only 7 chars for %d while it could take up to 9.
> 
> Right, very unlikely to have that many pv_ops, but it doesn't hurt to
> fix this.
> 
> Thanks!

Alternatively, 'idx' could just be unsigned char, since pv_ops only has
about ~80 entries max, but either way works for me.  I'll queue it up.

-- 
Josh