Re: [PATCH] gpio: acpi: work around false-positive -Wstring-overflow warning

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Thu Sep 07 2017 - 02:57:39 EST


On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 05:47:45PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> gcc-7 notices that the pin_table is an array of 16-bit numbers,
> but fails to take the following range check into account:
>
> drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c: In function 'acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupt':
> drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c:206:24: warning: '%02X' directive writing between 2 and 4 bytes into a region of size 3 [-Wformat-overflow=]
> sprintf(ev_name, "_%c%02X",
> ^~~~
> drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c:206:20: note: directive argument in the range [0, 65535]
> sprintf(ev_name, "_%c%02X",
> ^~~~~~~~~
> drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c:206:3: note: 'sprintf' output between 5 and 7 bytes into a destination of size 5
> sprintf(ev_name, "_%c%02X",
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> agpio->triggering == ACPI_EDGE_SENSITIVE ? 'E' : 'L',
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> pin);
> ~~~~
>
> As suggested by Andy, this changes the format string to have a fixed length.
> Since modifying the range check did not help, I also opened a bug against
> gcc, see link below.
>
> Fixes: 0d1c28a449c6 ("gpiolib-acpi: Add ACPI5 event model support to gpio.")
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9840801/
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82123
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>