[lvc-project] [PATCH] mlx4: use snprintf() instead of sprintf()	for safety
    Saeed Mahameed 
    saeed at kernel.org
       
    Wed Nov 23 07:43:41 MSK 2022
    
    
  
On 22 Nov 12:12, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:48:15 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 04:04:53PM +0300, Peter Kosyh wrote:
>> > Use snprintf() to avoid the potential buffer overflow. Although in the
>> > current code this is hardly possible, the safety is unclean.
>>
>> Let's fix the tools instead. The kernel code is correct.
>
>I'm guessing the code is correct because port can't be a high value?
>Otherwise, if I'm counting right, large enough port representation
>(e.g. 99999999) could overflow the string. If that's the case - how
>would they "fix the tool" to know the port is always a single digit?
+1 
FWIW,
Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeed at kernel.org>
    
    
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