Re: [PATCH] NFS: replace sprintf() with snprintf() in nfs_root_setup

[Trond Myklebust <trondmy@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 2026-09-08 at 18:34 +0000, Lalit Shankar Chowdhury wrote:
> Replace sprintf() with snprintf() to perform bounds checking when
> formatting.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lalit Shankar Chowdhury <lalitshankarch@gmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/nfs/nfsroot.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c b/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
> index 432612d22437..d2c26d5378a6 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
> @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static int __init nfs_root_setup(char *line)
>  		size_t n = strlen(line) + sizeof(NFS_ROOT) - 1;
>  		if (n >= sizeof(nfs_root_parms))
>  			line[sizeof(nfs_root_parms) -
> sizeof(NFS_ROOT) - 2] = '\0';
> -		sprintf(nfs_root_parms, NFS_ROOT, line);
> +		snprintf(nfs_root_parms, sizeof(nfs_root_parms),
> NFS_ROOT, line);
>  	}
>  
>  	/*

Please see the two lines immediately above the one you're replacing.
-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
trondmy@kernel.org, trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com