Re: [PATCH v2] clk/ti/adpll: allocate room for terminating null

[Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>]

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On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:48:53 -0700, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> wrote:
> Quoting Stephen Kitt (2019-09-27 11:05:59)
> > The buffer allocated in ti_adpll_clk_get_name doesn't account for the
> > terminating null. This patch switches to ka_sprintf to avoid
> > overflowing.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/clk/ti/adpll.c | 10 ++--------
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/clk/ti/adpll.c b/drivers/clk/ti/adpll.c
> > index fdfb90058504..021cf9e2b4db 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clk/ti/adpll.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clk/ti/adpll.c
> > @@ -195,14 +195,8 @@ static const char *ti_adpll_clk_get_name(struct
> > ti_adpll_data *d, return NULL;
> >         } else {
> >                 const char *base_name = "adpll";  
> 
> This is used once.
> 
> > -               char *buf;
> > -
> > -               buf = devm_kzalloc(d->dev, 8 + 1 + strlen(base_name) + 1 +
> > -                                   strlen(postfix), GFP_KERNEL);
> > -               if (!buf)
> > -                       return NULL;
> > -               sprintf(buf, "%08lx.%s.%s", d->pa, base_name, postfix);
> > -               name = buf;
> > +               name = devm_kasprintf(d->dev, GFP_KERNEL, "%08lx.%s.%s",  
> 
> So why not make this "%08lx.adpll.%s"?

Thanks for the review! I hesitated to do this because I thought the purely
formatting string "%08lx.%s.%s" made the resulting code easier to understand
than a combined "%08lx.adpll.%s". I’ll follow up with a v3 which merges the
"adpll" string into the format string.

Regards,

Stephen

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