Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: fix snprintf truncation compiler warning

From: Chaitanya Kulkarni
Date: Tue Dec 05 2023 - 01:59:26 EST


On 12/4/2023 6:07 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Commit 4e0400525691 ("virtio-blk: support polling I/O") triggers the
> following gcc 13 W=1 warnings:
>
> drivers/block/virtio_blk.c: In function ‘init_vq’:
> drivers/block/virtio_blk.c:1077:68: warning: ‘%d’ directive output may be truncated writing between 1 and 11 bytes into a region of size 7 [-Wformat-truncation=]
> 1077 | snprintf(vblk->vqs[i].name, VQ_NAME_LEN, "req_poll.%d", i);
> | ^~
> drivers/block/virtio_blk.c:1077:58: note: directive argument in the range [-2147483648, 65534]
> 1077 | snprintf(vblk->vqs[i].name, VQ_NAME_LEN, "req_poll.%d", i);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/block/virtio_blk.c:1077:17: note: ‘snprintf’ output between 11 and 21 bytes into a destination of size 16
> 1077 | snprintf(vblk->vqs[i].name, VQ_NAME_LEN, "req_poll.%d", i);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> This is a false positive because the lower bound -2147483648 is
> incorrect. The true range of i is [0, num_vqs - 1] where 0 < num_vqs <
> 65536.
>
> The code mixes int, unsigned short, and unsigned int types in addition
> to using "%d" for an unsigned value. Use unsigned short and "%u"
> consistently to solve the compiler warning.
>
> Cc: Suwan Kim <suwan.kim027@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202312041509.DIyvEt9h-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx>

-ck