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usb: cdnsp: Replace snprintf() with the safer scnprintf() variant
authorLee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:54:36 +0000 (10:54 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:35:17 +0000 (18:35 +0200)
commitae5b191184ce8380ea23d76bc644e3f469e9fbe0
tree5ee67daabb59c8de1f061424971cf28886d65c19
parent7227a8229f43f158ed3ce1596aa13811a6420ccf
usb: cdnsp: Replace snprintf() with the safer scnprintf() variant

[ Upstream commit b385ef088c7aab20a2c0dc20d390d69a6620f0f3 ]

There is a general misunderstanding amongst engineers that {v}snprintf()
returns the length of the data *actually* encoded into the destination
array.  However, as per the C99 standard {v}snprintf() really returns
the length of the data that *would have been* written if there were
enough space for it.  This misunderstanding has led to buffer-overruns
in the past.  It's generally considered safer to use the {v}scnprintf()
variants in their place (or even sprintf() in simple cases).  So let's
do that.

The uses in this file all seem to assume that data *has been* written!

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/69419/
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/105
Cc: Pawel Laszczak <pawell@cadence.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130105459.3208986-3-lee@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Stable-dep-of: 2831a81077f5 ("usb: cdnsp: Fix issue with CV Bad Descriptor test")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/usb/cdns3/cdnsp-debug.h