Re: Coverity: console_prepend_dropped(): Memory - corruptions

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (23/01/17 12:20), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > Oh, yes, I agree that snprintf() should be replaced. Maybe we can go
> > even a bit furhter and replace all snprintf()-s in kernel/printk/*
> > (well, in a similar fashion, just in case). I'm just trying to understand
> > what type of assumptions does coverity make here and so far everything
> > looks rather peculiar.
> 
> Note that we sometimes need snprintf() to compute the needed size
> of the buffer. For example, vsnprintf() in vprintk_store() is
> correct.

Oh, right, that's an excellebt point.