Re: drivers/clk/clk-renesas-pcie.c:178:31: warning: '%d' directive output may be truncated writing between 1 and 4 bytes into a region of size 2

From: Marek Vasut
Date: Mon Jan 20 2025 - 02:19:35 EST


On 1/20/25 12:45 AM, kernel test robot wrote:
tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head: 9528d418de4d83c7ada69314ddd8d4427b1f703a
commit: cd9a5c97dfdaeb9c8ac02e14d7ccbd445e8b5265 clk: rs9: Replace model check with bitshift from chip data
date: 1 year, 1 month ago
config: s390-randconfig-r111-20250120 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20250120/202501200756.HycDH8wZ-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: s390-linux-gcc (GCC) 14.2.0
reproduce: (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20250120/202501200756.HycDH8wZ-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202501200756.HycDH8wZ-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

drivers/clk/clk-renesas-pcie.c: In function 'rs9_probe':
drivers/clk/clk-renesas-pcie.c:178:31: warning: '%d' directive output may be truncated writing between 1 and 4 bytes into a region of size 2 [-Wformat-truncation=]
178 | snprintf(name, 5, "DIF%d", idx);
| ^~
In function 'rs9_get_output_config',
inlined from 'rs9_probe' at drivers/clk/clk-renesas-pcie.c:305:9:
drivers/clk/clk-renesas-pcie.c:178:27: note: directive argument in the range [-250, 63]
178 | snprintf(name, 5, "DIF%d", idx);
| ^~~~~~~
drivers/clk/clk-renesas-pcie.c:178:9: note: 'snprintf' output between 5 and 8 bytes into a destination of size 5
178 | snprintf(name, 5, "DIF%d", idx);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I can extend the name variable to length 8 to mitigate this warning, but there is some 8 DIF outputs maximum on this hardware, so it is known this %d field would not be longer than 1 decimal number. Shall I send such a patch ?