From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] objtool: check: give big enough buffer for pv_ops
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:53:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YeE588tXLrgWoUu4@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220114075756.838243-1-slyich@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 07:57:56AM +0000, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> On gcc-12 build fails flagging possible buffer overflow:
>
> check.c: In function 'validate_call':
> check.c:2865:58: error: '%d' directive output may be truncated writing between 1 and 10 bytes into a region of size 9 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
> 2865 | snprintf(pvname, sizeof(pvname), "pv_ops[%d]", idx);
> | ^~
>
> I think it's a valid warning:
>
> static char pvname[16];
> int idx;
> ...
> idx = (rel->addend / sizeof(void *));
> snprintf(pvname, sizeof(pvname), "pv_ops[%d]", idx);
>
> we have only 7 chars for %d while it could take up to 9.
Right, very unlikely to have that many pv_ops, but it doesn't hurt to
fix this.
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-14 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-14 7:57 Sergei Trofimovich
2022-01-14 8:53 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2022-01-20 22:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-01-20 23:09 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-01-20 23:37 ` [PATCH v2] " Sergei Trofimovich
2022-01-31 12:04 ` [tip: objtool/urgent] objtool: Fix truncated string warning tip-bot2 for Sergei Trofimovich
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