Re: [PATCH 1/5] usb: mtu3: fix coverity of string buffer

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 02:39:10PM +0800, Chunfeng Yun wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-07-08 at 09:26 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 03:18:59PM +0800, Chunfeng Yun wrote:
> > > Use snprintf instead of sprintf which could cause buffer overflow.
> > 
> > How can it cause an overflow?
> Maybe I didn't describe it clearly, this patch is used to fix coverity
> check warning of string buffer, in fact no overflow happens.

Then perhaps the coverity warning is useless and
yet-another-false-positive that that tool is known to spit out?

Don't make code changes just because broken tools say to do so.

thanks,

greg k-h