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* [PATCH] Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf (reported by cppcheck)
@ 2013-12-30 11:35 Stefan Weil
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From: Stefan Weil @ 2013-12-30 11:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: trivial; +Cc: Rob Landley, linux-doc, linux-kernel, Stefan Weil

cppcheck reports this error:

Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c:33]: (error)
 Dangerous usage of 'devname' (strncpy doesn't always 0-terminate it)

The terminating '\0' is needed for the global char array unload_heads_path,
so never write the last array entry (which is initially '\0').

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
---

This is only code in the documentation, nevertheless even there a correction
might help other users.

Cheers and happy new year

Stefan Weil

 Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c b/Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c
index a4a8fc5..b85dbba 100644
--- a/Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ int set_unload_heads_path(char *device)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	strncpy(devname, device + 5, sizeof(devname));
 
-	snprintf(unload_heads_path, sizeof(unload_heads_path),
+	snprintf(unload_heads_path, sizeof(unload_heads_path) - 1,
 				"/sys/block/%s/device/unload_heads", devname);
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.7.10.4


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