Re: [PATCH 15/20] drm/tegra/hub: Increase buffer size to ensure all possible values can be stored

From: Lee Jones
Date: Thu Aug 24 2023 - 08:02:21 EST


On Thu, 24 Aug 2023, Jani Nikula wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Aug 2023, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 08:37:00AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> >> When converting from int to string, we must allow for up to 10-chars (2147483647).
> >>
> >> Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s):
> >>
> >> drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/hub.c: In function ‘tegra_display_hub_probe’:
> >> drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/hub.c:1106:47: warning: ‘%u’ directive output may be truncated writing between 1 and 10 bytes into a region of size 4 [-Wformat-truncation=]
> >> drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/hub.c:1106:42: note: directive argument in the range [0, 4294967294]
> >> drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/hub.c:1106:17: note: ‘snprintf’ output between 6 and 15 bytes into a destination of size 8
> >
> > I wish there was (perhaps there is?) a better way to annotate that i
> > will always be within a given range. In practice this is always going to
> > be smaller than 10 and even in future hardware I wouldn't expect this to
> > ever exceed anything like 32 or 64, so 8 characters is already generous.
>
> I assume you could do
>
> snprintf(id, sizeof(id), "wgrp%u", (unsigned char)i);
>
> but it's perhaps less obvious than just increasing the size of the
> buffer.

I had the very same thought process.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]