linux-kernel - [PATCH] misc: mic: Use scnprintf() for avoiding potential buffer overflow

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Message-Id: <20200311074916.8783-1-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:49:16 +0100
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>,
        Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] misc: mic: Use scnprintf() for avoiding potential buffer overflow

Since snprintf() returns the would-be-output size instead of the
actual output size, the succeeding calls may go beyond the given
buffer limit.  Fix it by replacing with scnprintf().

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
---
 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_x100.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_x100.c b/drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_x100.c
index a7743312da9c..d18cda966912 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_x100.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_x100.c
@@ -350,10 +350,10 @@ mic_x100_load_command_line(struct mic_device *mdev, const struct firmware *fw)
 	if (!buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	len += snprintf(buf, CMDLINE_SIZE - len,
+	len += scnprintf(buf, CMDLINE_SIZE - len,
 		" mem=%dM", boot_mem);
 	if (mdev->cosm_dev->cmdline)
-		snprintf(buf + len, CMDLINE_SIZE - len, " %s",
+		scnprintf(buf + len, CMDLINE_SIZE - len, " %s",
 			 mdev->cosm_dev->cmdline);
 	memcpy_toio(cmd_line_va, buf, strlen(buf) + 1);
 	kfree(buf);
-- 
2.16.4