[PATCH 04/12] usb: gadget: uvc: Replace snprintf() with the safer scnprintf() variant

From: Lee Jones
Date: Wed Dec 13 2023 - 11:43:18 EST


There is a general misunderstanding amongst engineers that {v}snprintf()
returns the length of the data *actually* encoded into the destination
array. However, as per the C99 standard {v}snprintf() really returns
the length of the data that *would have been* written if there were
enough space for it. This misunderstanding has led to buffer-overruns
in the past. It's generally considered safer to use the {v}scnprintf()
variants in their place (or even sprintf() in simple cases). So let's
do that.

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/69419/
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/105
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzejtp2010@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c
index 9bf0e985acfab..7e704b2bcfd1c 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c
@@ -3414,7 +3414,7 @@ static ssize_t f_uvc_opts_string_##cname##_show(struct config_item *item,\
int result; \
\
mutex_lock(&opts->lock); \
- result = snprintf(page, sizeof(opts->aname), "%s", opts->aname);\
+ result = scnprintf(page, sizeof(opts->aname), "%s", opts->aname);\
mutex_unlock(&opts->lock); \
\
return result; \
--
2.43.0.472.g3155946c3a-goog