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dm-verity: increase sprintf buffer size
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Thu, 9 Jul 2026 19:36:01 +0000 (21:36 +0200)
committerMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:42:05 +0000 (14:42 +0200)
commit88dd117c92a142253fb7a17e791773902b3babc6
tree205cd7768ea1730196af4682f4d5afa9ab86e7d5
parente72b793ae440f6900fb17a4b8518c707b5cd3e17
dm-verity: increase sprintf buffer size

The prefix "DM_VERITY_ERR_BLOCK_NR" is 22 chars. Add '=', one digit for
type, ',', up to 20 digits for a u64 block number, and a NUL terminator:
that's 46 bytes. The buffer is 42 bytes. For block numbers >= 16 decimal
digits (devices larger than ~16 EB with 4K blocks), snprintf silently
truncates the uevent environment variable.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Fixes: 65ff5b7ddf05 ("dm verity: add error handling modes for corrupted blocks")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c