linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mpssd: fix buffer overflow warning

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Date:	Fri, 20 May 2016 01:07:38 -0400
From:	Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>
To:	Mike Danese <mikedanese@...gle.com>
Cc:	"Dutt\, Sudeep" <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Chandramouli\, Dasaratharaman" 
	<dasaratharaman.chandramouli@...el.com>,
	Mahesh Khanwalkar <maheshkhanwalkar@...il.com>,
	"open list\:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpssd: fix buffer overflow warning

On Fri, May 20 2016 at 12:54:51 AM, Mike Danese <mikedanese@...gle.com> wrote:
> The compilation emits a warning in function ‘snprintf’,
>     inlined from ‘set_cmdline’ at
>     ../Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:1541:9:
> /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/stdio2.h:64:10:
>     warning: call to __builtin___snprintf_chk will always overflow
>     destination buffer
>
> This was introduced in commit f4a66c204482 ("misc: mic: Update MIC host
> daemon with COSM changes") and is fixed by reverting the changes to the
> size argument of these snprintf statements.

Thanks for the patch, the fix is fine.