netdev - Re: [Suggestion] net/atm : for sprintf, need check the total write length whether larger than a page.

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Date:	Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:57:17 -0500
From:	"Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>
To:	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Suggestion] net/atm : for sprintf, need check the total write length whether larger than a page.

In message <50BEA2CB.9000800@...anux.com>,Chen Gang writes:
>> -	for (i = 0; i < (ESI_LEN - 1); i++)
>> -		pos += sprintf(pos, "%02x:", adev->esi[i]);
>> -	pos += sprintf(pos, "%02x\n", adev->esi[i]);
>>  
>> -	return pos - buf;
>> +	return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%pM\n", adev->esi);
>>  }
>>  
>
>  "%p" seems print a pointer, not contents of pointer (is it correct ?)
>  will it change the original display format to outside ?

%pM means format this pointer as a mac address.  it didnt exist when the
atm stack was originally written but can be used now to save a bit of
messy code.

>> -		pos += sprintf(pos, "\n");
>> +		count += scnprintf(buf + count, PAGE_SIZE - count, "\n");
...
>  need we judge whether count >= PAGE_SIZE ?

count will eventually make PAGE_SIZE - count reach 0 at which point,
scnprintf() won't be able to write into the buffer.
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