Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: sun50i: Fix build warning around snprint()

From: Julian Calaby
Date: Mon Apr 22 2024 - 21:38:45 EST


Hi Viresh,

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 1:31 PM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The Sun50i driver generates a warning with W=1:
>
> warning: '%d' directive output may be truncated writing between 1 and 10 bytes into a region of size 2 [-Wformat-truncation=]
>
> Fix it by allocating a big enough array to print an integer.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202404191715.LDwMm2gP-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

This'll absolutely fix the issue here, so:

Reviewed-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx>

However:

> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/sun50i-cpufreq-nvmem.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/sun50i-cpufreq-nvmem.c b/drivers/cpufreq/sun50i-cpufreq-nvmem.c
> index 30e5c337611c..cd50cea16a87 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/sun50i-cpufreq-nvmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/sun50i-cpufreq-nvmem.c
> @@ -208,7 +206,7 @@ static int sun50i_cpufreq_get_efuse(void)
> static int sun50i_cpufreq_nvmem_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> int *opp_tokens;
> - char name[MAX_NAME_LEN];
> + char name[] = "speedXXXXXXXXXXX"; /* Integers can take 11 chars max */

Would it make sense to just set a static length for the string here,
say 17-20 characters and add a comment explaining the number, say: /*
"speed" + 11 chars for the int */

The string constant, while it'll probably be optimised away, seems
weird and wasteful.

Thanks,

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