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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] checkpatch: add check for snprintf to scnprintf
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:06:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202404151105.54B9DEABE8@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFhGd8rUz_wG+jkW=+17RpG2BQxaRMmZVk=g=G1FogMSeAD7jA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 03:10:57PM -0700, Justin Stitt wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 1:56 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > It could.
> >
> > # {v}snprintf uses that should likely be {v}scnprintf
> >                 if ($line =~ /\b((v?)snprintf)\s*\(/) {
> >                         WARN("SNPRINTF",
> >                              "Prefer ${2}scnprintf over $1 - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/105\n" . $herecurr);
> >                 }
> >
> >
> >
> > Though I also think it's better to use lore rather than github
> 
> I am fine with making the UX change in v5 regarding using ${2} and $1
> but I wish someone could have said something about the Github links
> earlier, we already have a pattern going with these string api
> changes:
> 
>      "Prefer strscpy over strcpy - see:
> https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88\n" . $herecurr);
> }

KSPP isn't going anywhere -- we've used these links before and we can
use them here too. I don't see any good reason to duplicate stuff into
lore, etc.

-- 
Kees Cook

      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-15 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-08 20:53 [PATCH v4] checkpatch: add check for snprintf to scnprintf Justin Stitt
2024-04-08 23:20 ` Kees Cook
2024-04-11  6:57 ` Lee Jones
2024-04-11 20:01 ` Christophe JAILLET
2024-04-11 20:56   ` Joe Perches
2024-04-11 22:10     ` Justin Stitt
2024-04-15 18:06       ` Kees Cook [this message]

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