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[PATCH 8/8] x86: intel-mid: fix a format string overflow warning

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We have space for exactly three characters for the index in "max7315_%d_base",
but as gcc points out having more would cause an string overflow:

arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c: In function 'max7315_platform_data':
arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c:41:26: error: '%d' directive writing between 1 and 11 bytes into a region of size 9 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
   sprintf(base_pin_name, "max7315_%d_base", nr);
                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c:41:26: note: directive argument in the range [-2147483647, 2147483647]
arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c:41:3: note: 'sprintf' output between 15 and 25 bytes into a destination of size 17
   sprintf(base_pin_name, "max7315_%d_base", nr);

This makes it use an snprintf() to truncate the string if that happened
rather than overflowing the stack. In practice, this is safe, because
there won't be a large number of max7315 devices in the systems, and
both the format and the length are defined by the firmware interface.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
Originally submitted on July 14, this is the same patch with slightly
improved changelog.
---
 arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c b/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c
index 6e075afa7877..58337b2bc682 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c
@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ static void __init *max7315_platform_data(void *info)
 	 */
 	strcpy(i2c_info->type, "max7315");
 	if (nr++) {
-		sprintf(base_pin_name, "max7315_%d_base", nr);
-		sprintf(intr_pin_name, "max7315_%d_int", nr);
+		snprintf(base_pin_name, sizeof(base_pin_name),
+			 "max7315_%d_base", nr);
+		snprintf(intr_pin_name, sizeof(intr_pin_name),
+			 "max7315_%d_int", nr);
 	} else {
 		strcpy(base_pin_name, "max7315_base");
 		strcpy(intr_pin_name, "max7315_int");
-- 
2.9.0

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[PATCH 8/8] x86: intel-mid: fix a format string overflow warning Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-07-19 15:00 +0200
  [tip:x86/urgent] x86/platform/intel-mid: Fix a format string  overflow warning tip-bot for Arnd Bergmann <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-07-20 12:40 +0200

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