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    md: raid5: avoid string overflow warning · 53b8d89d
    Arnd Bergmann authored
    gcc warns about a possible overflow of the kmem_cache string, when adding
    four characters to a string of the same length:
    
    drivers/md/raid5.c: In function 'setup_conf':
    drivers/md/raid5.c:2207:34: error: '-alt' directive writing 4 bytes into a region of size between 1 and 32 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
      sprintf(conf->cache_name[1], "%s-alt", conf->cache_name[0]);
                                      ^~~~
    drivers/md/raid5.c:2207:2: note: 'sprintf' output between 5 and 36 bytes into a destination of size 32
      sprintf(conf->cache_name[1], "%s-alt", conf->cache_name[0]);
      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    
    If I'm counting correctly, we need 11 characters for the fixed part
    of the string and 18 characters for a 64-bit pointer (when no gendisk
    is used), so that leaves three characters for conf->level, which should
    always be sufficient.
    
    This makes the code use snprintf() with the correct length, to
    make the code more robust against changes, and to get the compiler
    to shut up.
    
    In commit f4be6b43 ("md/raid5: ensure we create a unique name for
    kmem_cache when mddev has no gendisk") from 2010, Neil said that
    the pointer could be removed "shortly" once devices without gendisk
    are disallowed. I have no idea if that happened, but if it did, that
    should probably be changed as well.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <sh.li@alibaba-inc.com>
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