For some strings (e.g. version string), they are permitted to be larger than PAGE_SIZE (although meaningless), so recommend to use scnprintf() instead of sprintf().
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.c...@asianux.com> --- kernel/params.c | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c index 1f228a3..4da300f 100644 --- a/kernel/params.c +++ b/kernel/params.c @@ -241,7 +241,8 @@ int parse_args(const char *doing, } \ int param_get_##name(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp) \ { \ - return sprintf(buffer, format, *((type *)kp->arg)); \ + return scnprintf(buffer, PAGE_SIZE, format, \ + *((type *)kp->arg)); \ } \ struct kernel_param_ops param_ops_##name = { \ .set = param_set_##name, \ @@ -285,7 +286,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(param_set_charp); int param_get_charp(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp) { - return sprintf(buffer, "%s", *((char **)kp->arg)); + return scnprintf(buffer, PAGE_SIZE, "%s", *((char **)kp->arg)); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(param_get_charp); @@ -827,7 +828,7 @@ ssize_t __modver_version_show(struct module_attribute *mattr, struct module_version_attribute *vattr = container_of(mattr, struct module_version_attribute, mattr); - return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", vattr->version); + return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", vattr->version); } extern const struct module_version_attribute *__start___modver[]; -- 1.7.7.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/