[PATCH] hwmon: (ibmpowernv) Use scnprintf() for avoiding potential buffer overflow
Guenter Roeck
linux at roeck-us.net
Thu Mar 12 02:09:54 AEDT 2020
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 08:39:44AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Since snprintf() returns the would-be-output size instead of the
> actual output size, the succeeding calls may go beyond the given
> buffer limit. Fix it by replacing with scnprintf().
>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Applied to hwmon-next.
Thanks,
Guenter
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/ibmpowernv.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/ibmpowernv.c b/drivers/hwmon/ibmpowernv.c
> index 0e525cfbdfc5..a750647e66a4 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/ibmpowernv.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/ibmpowernv.c
> @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ static void make_sensor_label(struct device_node *np,
> u32 id;
> size_t n;
>
> - n = snprintf(sdata->label, sizeof(sdata->label), "%s", label);
> + n = scnprintf(sdata->label, sizeof(sdata->label), "%s", label);
>
> /*
> * Core temp pretty print
> @@ -199,11 +199,11 @@ static void make_sensor_label(struct device_node *np,
> * The digital thermal sensors are associated
> * with a core.
> */
> - n += snprintf(sdata->label + n,
> + n += scnprintf(sdata->label + n,
> sizeof(sdata->label) - n, " %d",
> cpuid);
> else
> - n += snprintf(sdata->label + n,
> + n += scnprintf(sdata->label + n,
> sizeof(sdata->label) - n, " phy%d", id);
> }
>
> @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static void make_sensor_label(struct device_node *np,
> * Membuffer pretty print
> */
> if (!of_property_read_u32(np, "ibm,chip-id", &id))
> - n += snprintf(sdata->label + n, sizeof(sdata->label) - n,
> + n += scnprintf(sdata->label + n, sizeof(sdata->label) - n,
> " %d", id & 0xffff);
> }
>
> --
> 2.16.4
>
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