Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] i40e: replace snprintf() with scnprintf()

[Jacob Keller]

On 7/22/2025 1:17 PM, Tony Nguyen wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/22/2025 4:50 AM, Amir Mohammad Jahangirzad wrote:
>> In i40e_dbg_command_read(), a 256-byte buffer is allocated and filled
>> using snprintf(), then copied to userspace via copy_to_user().
>>
>> The issue is that snprintf() returns the number of characters that
>> *Would* have been written, not the number that actually fit in the buffer.
>> If the combined length of the netdev name and i40e_dbg_command_buf is
>> long (e.g. 288 + 3 bytes), snprintf() still returns 291 - even though only
>> 256 bytes were written.
> 
> Hi Amir,
> 
> Thank you for the patch. In practice, this won't overflow [1]. However, 
> this code can be improved. If you follow the thread, there's 
> conversation of the changes that will be made.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250714181032.GS721198@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 

Yep. I have patches to just remove this read interface entirely. I hope
to post them later today.

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