[PATCH] drm/nouveau: replace snprintf() with scnprintf() in nvkm_snprintbf()
Danilo Krummrich
dakr at kernel.org
Sat Aug 9 12:00:19 UTC 2025
On 7/24/25 9:59 PM, Seyediman Seyedarab wrote:
> snprintf() returns the number of characters that *would* have been
> written, which can overestimate how much you actually wrote to the
> buffer in case of truncation. That leads to 'data += this' advancing
> the pointer past the end of the buffer and size going negative.
>
> Switching to scnprintf() prevents potential buffer overflows and ensures
> consistent behavior when building the output string.
>
> Signed-off-by: Seyediman Seyedarab <ImanDevel at gmail.com>
Applied to drm-misc-next, thanks!
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