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

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Thu Oct 17 2019 - 11:48:56 EST


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@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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"?

> + d->pa, base_name, postfix);
> }