[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] Buffer overruns in printf

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Oct 10 21:06:27 CEST 2011


Hi,

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> On 27/09/2011 00:28, Scott Wood wrote:
>
>>> - users who actually wisht to limit outpout ca use either
>>
>> You say "actually wish to limit output" as if "let it corrupt memory if
>> it's too large" is the normal thing to want.
>
> What I meant was "users who actually want to limit output explicitly by
> truncating it rather than implicitly by always outputting small enough text
> or crafting limitations in the format string specifiers, ..."
>
>> -scott
>
> Amicalement,
> --
> Albert.
>

Just to follow up this thread, I am going to drop the network patch
and resubmit the rest of it. This will make snprintf() available in
U-Boot.

Regards,
Simon


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