[PATCH] ARM: plat-samsung: using vsnprintf instead of vsprintf for the limit buffer length 256

Ben Dooks ben at fluff.org
Mon Jan 21 08:56:26 EST 2013


On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 06:25:18PM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
> 
>   the buff size is 256, so need use vsnprintf instead of vsprintf.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen at asianux.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/plat-samsung/pm.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-samsung/pm.c b/arch/arm/plat-samsung/pm.c
> index 1507028..8d07b45 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/plat-samsung/pm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/plat-samsung/pm.c
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ void s3c_pm_dbg(const char *fmt, ...)
>  	char buff[256];
>  
>  	va_start(va, fmt);
> -	vsprintf(buff, fmt, va);
> +	vsnprintf(buff, 256, fmt, va);

How about: vsnprintf(buff, sizeof(buff), fmt, va);

It means we do not end up assuming the size of 'buff' and will be correct
if the code is changed to declare 'buff' to be a different size.

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