[U-Boot] [PATCH] kconfig: Avoid format overflow warning from GCC 8.1

Luis Araneda luaraneda at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 20:55:31 UTC 2018


cherry-pick kernel commit 2ae89c7 (2018-06-05)
to avoid warnings when compiling with GCC 8.1

In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2486:
scripts/kconfig/confdata.c: In function ‘conf_write’:
scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:771:22: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing likely 7 or more bytes into a region of size between 1 and 4097 [-Wformat-overflow=]
  sprintf(newname, "%s%s", dirname, basename);
                      ^~
scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:771:19: note: assuming directive output of 7 bytes
  sprintf(newname, "%s%s", dirname, basename);
                   ^~~~~~
scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:771:2: note: ‘sprintf’ output 1 or more bytes (assuming 4104) into a destination of size 4097
  sprintf(newname, "%s%s", dirname, basename);
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:774:23: warning: ‘.tmpconfig.’ directive writing 11 bytes into a region of size between 1 and 4097 [-Wformat-overflow=]
   sprintf(tmpname, "%s.tmpconfig.%d", dirname, (int)getpid());
                       ^~~~~~~~~~~
scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:774:3: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 13 and 4119 bytes into a destination of size 4097
   sprintf(tmpname, "%s.tmpconfig.%d", dirname, (int)getpid());
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Luis Araneda <luaraneda at gmail.com>
---
 scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
index e4cbb87d76..a04bb26304 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ int conf_write(const char *name)
 	struct menu *menu;
 	const char *basename;
 	const char *str;
-	char dirname[PATH_MAX+1], tmpname[PATH_MAX+1], newname[PATH_MAX+1];
+	char dirname[PATH_MAX+1], tmpname[PATH_MAX+22], newname[PATH_MAX+8];
 	char *env;
 
 	dirname[0] = 0;
-- 
2.18.0



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