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authorLee Jones <lee@kernel.org>2023-11-30 11:54:37 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-12-04 14:25:17 +0100
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usb: fotg210-hcd: Replace snprintf() with the safer scnprintf() variant
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. The uses in this file both seem to assume that data *has been* written! Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/69419/ Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/105 Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Yuan-Hsin Chen <yhchen@faraday-tech.com> Cc: Feng-Hsin Chiang <john453@faraday-tech.com> Cc: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert.chuang@gmail.com> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130105459.3208986-4-lee@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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