RE: [PATCH] perf: increase size of buf in perf_evsel__hists_browse()
From: David Laight
Date: Sat Oct 31 2020 - 07:28:14 EST
From: Song Liu
> Sent: 30 October 2020 23:55
>
> Making perf with gcc-9.1.1 generates the following warning:
>
> CC ui/browsers/hists.o
> ui/browsers/hists.c: In function 'perf_evsel__hists_browse':
> ui/browsers/hists.c:3078:61: error: '%d' directive output may be \
> truncated writing between 1 and 11 bytes into a region of size \
> between 2 and 12 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
>
> 3078 | "Max event group index to sort is %d (index from 0 to %d)",
> | ^~
> ui/browsers/hists.c:3078:7: note: directive argument in the range [-2147483648, 8]
> 3078 | "Max event group index to sort is %d (index from 0 to %d)",
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:937,
> from ui/browsers/hists.c:5:
>
> IOW, the string in line 3078 might be too long for buf[] of 64 bytes.
>
> Fix this by increasing the size of buf[] to 128.
ISTM that something should be unsigned so that the bound check
that puts an upper bound of 8 implies a lower bound.
David
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