Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: Fix sprintf() INT_MAX -Wformat-truncation= warn

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Wed Nov 16 2022 - 14:53:22 EST


On 11/16/22 12:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 4:23 PM Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

utprint module is included in tools/acpidump and when acpidump is built,
the following warning occurs.

CC tools/acpidump/utprint.o
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/stdio2.h: In function ‘sprintf’:
../../../../../drivers/acpi/acpica/utprint.c:602:18: warning: specified bound 4294901760 exceeds ‘INT_MAX’ [-Wformat-truncation=]
602 | length = vsnprintf(string, ACPI_UINT32_MAX-ACPI_UINT16_MAX,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
603 | format, args);
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fix sprintf() to use ACPI_UINT32_MAX/2 to get rid of the truncate problem.
This change is inline other sprintf() implementations.

If using ACPI_UINT32_MAX is necessary in the kernel, acpidump might require
special case to get rid of this truncate problem.

As ACPICA material, this should be submitted to the upstream project
on GitHub and honestly I'm not sure if it is going to be resolved this
way there.

Thank you for your review. I will send this ACPICA upstream project.

thanks,
-- Shuah