On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Rasmus Villemoes
<li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:
> Doing snprintf(buf, len, "%s...", buf, ...) for appending to a buffer
> currently works, but it is somewhat fragile, and any other overlap
> between source and destination buffers would be a definite bug. This
> is an attempt at eliminating the relatively few occurences of this
> pattern in the kernel.
>
> I could use another set of eyes on all of these. The drm/amdkfd patch
> is unfortunately rather large, but I couldn't find a better way to do
> this.

Would we use seq_buf API instead in that case?

>
> Rasmus Villemoes (7):
>   drm/amdkfd: avoid fragile and inefficient snprintf use
>   Input: joystick - avoid fragile snprintf use
>   leds: avoid fragile sprintf use
>   drivers/media/pci/zoran: avoid fragile snprintf use
>   wlcore: avoid fragile snprintf use
>   [media] ati_remote: avoid fragile snprintf use
>   USB: usbatm: avoid fragile and inefficient snprintf use



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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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