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usb: cdnsp: Replace snprintf() with the safer scnprintf() variant
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There is a general misunderstanding amongst engineers that {v}snprintf()
returns the length of the data *actually* encoded into the destination
array.  However, as per the C99 standard {v}snprintf() really returns
the length of the data that *would have been* written if there were
enough space for it.  This misunderstanding has led to buffer-overruns
in the past.  It's generally considered safer to use the {v}scnprintf()
variants in their place (or even sprintf() in simple cases).  So let's
do that.

The uses in this file all seem to assume that data *has been* written!

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/69419/
Link: KSPP#105
Cc: Pawel Laszczak <pawell@cadence.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130105459.3208986-3-lee@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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lag-linaro authored and gregkh committed Dec 4, 2023
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