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

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Message-ID: <20160603133224.43519320@lwn.net>
Date:	Fri, 3 Jun 2016 13:32:24 -0600
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Mike Danese <mikedanese@...gle.com>
Cc:	Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dasaratharaman Chandramouli 
	<dasaratharaman.chandramouli@...el.com>,
	Mahesh Khanwalkar <maheshkhanwalkar@...il.com>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org (open list:DOCUMENTATION),
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpssd: fix buffer overflow warning

On Thu, 19 May 2016 21:54:51 -0700
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

Applied to the docs tree, thanks.  I do wonder if Documentation/ is the
best place for this tool, though...

jon