Re: [PATCH 10/22] bnx2x: fix format overflow warning

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Jul 14 2017 - 12:04:04 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:07:02 +0200

> gcc notices that large queue numbers would overflow the queue name
> string:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c: In function 'bnx2x_get_strings':
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c:3165:25: error: '%d' directive writing between 1 and 10 bytes into a region of size 5 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c:3165:25: note: directive argument in the range [0, 2147483647]
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c:3165:5: note: 'sprintf' output between 2 and 11 bytes into a destination of size 5
>
> There is a hard limit in place that makes the number at most two
> digits, so the code is fine. This changes it to use snprintf()
> to truncate instead of overflowing, which shuts up that warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Applied.