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Commit a6eef67c authored by Lee Jones's avatar Lee Jones Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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usb: host: max3421-hcd: Replace snprintf() with the safer scnprintf() variant



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.

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/69419/
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/105
Cc: Cristian Birsan <cristian.birsan@microchip.com>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>
Cc:  <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231213164246.1021885-8-lee@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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