Re: [PATCH] locking/lockdep: fix format-truncation compiler-warning

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Oct 11 2023 - 18:11:22 EST



* Lucy Mielke <lucymielke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Compiler: gcc x86_64 v13.2.1
> Config: allyesconfig, "treat warnings as errors" unset
>
> This fixes a warning emitted by gcc, stating the output may be
> truncated. The fix included increasing the buffer size to the one
> denoted by gcc.

Mind including the output by GCC in the changelog?

> static void seq_time(struct seq_file *m, s64 time)
> {
> - char num[15];
> + char num[22];
>
> snprint_time(num, sizeof(num), time);
> seq_printf(m, " %14s", num);

Fun.

So this:

static void snprint_time(char *buf, size_t bufsiz, s64 nr)
{
s64 div;
s32 rem;

nr += 5; /* for display rounding */
div = div_s64_rem(nr, 1000, &rem);
snprintf(buf, bufsiz, "%lld.%02d", (long long)div, (int)rem/10);
}

... actually needs 21+1 bytes?

Which I suppose is true - longest s64 is "-9223372036854775808"-ish, which
converted to the fixed-point float format above is "-9223372036854775.80":
21 bytes, plus termination is another byte: 22.

Maybe put this into the changelog too, instead of relying on magic GCC
calculations only. :-)

Thanks,

Ingo